Word: embeddedness
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"Inflation has become embedded in the very tissue of our economy." -President Carter in his speech last week.
The nation's most widely watched measure of inflation by far is the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumer price index. As inflation has embedded itself in American life, the CPI has become possibly the most important economic statistic issued by the Government. Escalator clauses tie the incomes of...
The findings confirmed the estimate of U.S. and Canadian scientists that parts of the satellite had survived the searing 17,000-m.p.h. entry into the atmosphere and probably fell in a shotgun-like pattern over at least 200 miles. One of the biggest pieces found was a gray metal tube...
Then he started to play on the prison's beat-up piano. As the glow of the gospel music touched the audience of disheveled, jean-clad and self-segregated men-blacks seated on the left, whites on the right, Chicanos in front-they began to thaw. Black prisoners started...
Embedded in this color is a profusion of shapes: balls and balusters, cubes, boxes, spikes, seamed and weathered palings, fragments of ogee and cavetto molding, the fossils of the Age of Wood. By now, Nevelson is a scavenger on a nearly industrial scale, given to buying up whole demolition contracts...