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Slightly more useful information in the report concerned "manpower input." Because of the heavy work load an additional full-time appointment was made...
...department has begun to adopt some technological changes in the administration segment of its production function," he stated. "We are attempting to accumulate the information necessary for determining input-output ratios and other facts relevant to running an efficient business...
Rule Tightening. A clean rig, says the FCC, has a maximum of five watts input, and has an antenna that reaches no higher than 20 ft. above the structure on which it is mounted. Adequate CB equipment, consisting basically of two transceivers (combination transmitter and receiver) and antenna, is marketed by a long list of reputable manufacturers, including Lafayette, Hammarlund, Halli-crafters, RCA and Heath, averages out at a cost of about $300. A typical, medium-priced transceiver operates on eight crystal-controlled channels providing locked-in transmitting frequencies in much the same manner as pushbuttons work on any radio...
...burdens of composition. First, there was the matter of terminology: his field (economics) had no shortage of scientific words, which, since they represented the collected wisdom of the discipline, must be not only used but totally assimilated as well. Soon he was thinking in terms of maximized efficiency, input-output ratios, and consumer indifference curves. Second, there was the need to guard against vague language. On those occasions when he permitted himself a metaphor Herbert always added "so to speak" or "as it were" so that it would be clear that he was merely using a figure of speech...
...automation, and its near-sighted leadership sees in disarmament only an immediate threat to employment. It is very hard to convince a nation suspicious of economic planning that an undertaking which will eliminate 4,500,000 jobs can create just as many. This optimistic synopsis of Professor Leontieff's input-output research was set forth in the United Nations report on the economic and social consequences of disarmament...