Word: constant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give up now or face annihilation," more than 800 of Singapore's hoodlums and small fry finally turned themselves in, 200 on the last day of the amnesty last week...
...avoid the illusion that the economy is growing faster than it really is when prices are rising, the C.E.D. plotted the gross national product back to 1909 in terms of a "constant dollar" based on the value of the dollar in 1954, when it was considered comparatively stable. Only in this way, said C.E.D., is it possible to "answer such questions as whether our general growth rate has recently been higher, or lower, or about the same as in the past." The C.E.D.'s basic findings...
Disposable Income. After allowing for prices and higher taxes, has real income kept pace with productivity? Yes, said C.E.D. Using its 1954 constant-dollar test, and allowing for steeper taxes, C.E.D. found that from 1929 to 1957 per capita disposable income also rose 1.6% a year. Since 1947, the rise has been almost 2% and gave the average U.S. citizen in mid-1959 a real income 26% higher than in 1947 and 60% higher than...
Repetition enters into the classroom as well as into the language lab. After all, the exponents of the oral-aural method state, a child learns his language habits only through constant exposure to and practice of a single tongue. The child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate...
...intend to propose a solution that will eliminate the constant reiteration of the problem," he added...