Word: constant
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This theatrical scheme can be an effective one, and it is flexible enough to allow a constant updating of the show. The Light Company, for example, has a bit taken right from the morning's headlines which will be changed every night...
...draft will doubtless endure until the war in Viet Nam ends, but it could then be phased out gradually. After that, the draft structure can be kept in stand-by readiness, thinks Nixon, "without leaving 20 million young Americans who will come of age during the next decade in constant uncertainty and apprehension...
...social situations, however, there are distinct drawbacks: at dinner parties, left-handers find themselves tangling elbows with their partners unless they have had the foresight to seize a chair at the left end of the table. The constant irritations of domestic life are multiplied for the southpaw. Scissors do not work properly, and neither do can openers. Subway turnstiles are right-hand oriented, soldiers salute with the right hand and solemn oaths are sworn the same...
Friedman's main point is that the Reserve Board should simply let the money supply grow at a constant rate of about 5% a year, in line with the real growth of the nation's output of goods and services. An increasing number of experts agree with him. Last summer the congressional Joint Economic Committee urged the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply no less than 2% and no more than 6% a year. Last week 40 out of 71 economists who responded to a survey by a House subcommittee urged the Reserve Board to increase...
Lovell: One of the most amazing features of the surface is the roundness that most of the craters have instead of sharp, jagged rocks. Only the newest features have any sharp definitions to them, and eventually they get eroded down by the constant bombardment of small meteoroids...