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Witnesses said the speeding car may have been playing tag with another vehicle when it veered into the southbound lane occupied by Lopez' truck shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday.

[Nveh] play tag with [Nveh]

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The Livestock General Directorate (DGE) is in charge of the Livestock sub-sector under the aegis of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MEP) established in 1979.

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By 1972 Canada was falling so far short of attaining even these modest goals that the Economic Council felt compelled to relax them and substitute "indicative targets" to 1975 -- which were not met either.

[to] fall [so far] short of

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The ISG has particularly good links with the nearby Division of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leeds.

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Daily Variety, citing unidentified sources, reported the pact would call for McDonald's to be involved in 14 to 17 promotions annually and to pay Disney $100 million for royalties, licensing and sponsorship of Disney's new Animal Kingdom theme park.

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Hence the relationship between the price of a product and the quantity consumers purchase will be called the "law" of demand, rather than the theory or principle of demand, because it is customary so to designate it.

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Explain and give an illustration of a. the fallacy of composition; b. the "after this, therefore, because of this" fallacy.

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Schafer testified he believed his bureau chief in Beirut, Lester Coleman, was responsible for his photo appearing as part of the Pan Am affidavit.

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To be meaningful, facts must be systematically arranged, interpreted, and generalized upon.

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Yet during periods of depression, the economist is equally correct in generalizing to the effect that saving is an economic vice, the reason being that too much saving is the immediate cause of unemployment or depression.

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[to] be the [immediate] cause of

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First Interstate agreed in January to Wells Frago's deal, which was worth about $2 billion more than the FBS offer.

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The merger, currently worth $12.8 billion, is due to close on April 1 and will be the nation's largest banking deal ever.

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Whether OPEC will actually cease to be effective in maintaining prices remains to be seen, but developments in the oil markets since decontrol are strong testimony to the economists' logic of mobilizing the forces of the marketplace to economize on a scarce resource, stimulate supply, and undermine anticompetitive supply cartelization.

[to] be [strong] testimony of

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Is it directly usable or does the user have to do additional data manipulation before one can make use of it?

[to] do [additional] [data] manipulation

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But does this also hold true for the group -- for everyone watching the game?

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These specifications gave insight into the space of possible case-based systems, and elucidated human interaction properties.

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They've engaged in phony bargaining, and now they need to do some real bargaining.

[to] do some real bargaining

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But we must be aware of certain potential dangers in deriving and applying these models.

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The merchant must somehow get rid of this undesired surplus stock of summer wear.

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Economists derive economic principles that are useful in the formulation of policies designed to solve economic problems.

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Economic models may take the form of verbal statements, numerical tables, mathematical equations, or graphs.

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The DNA has hired more than 1,400 replacement workers to take on the duties of employees of six unions, which went on strike last July when contracts expired and new work rules were established for some employees.

[to] go on strike

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The right front of the swerving car clipped Lopez' Toyota, causing it to spin and flip three times before coming to a rest on an embankment along the highway.

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Aware of this anticipated result, public officials are now in a position to set in motion certain government policies designed to bolster total spending and head off expected unemployment.

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Economic principles help make prediction possible.

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Pizza Hut staged a major tie-in with Universal's Casper and Taco Bell held a successful campaign for Paramount's Congo last year.

[to] hold a [successful] campaign for

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In dealing with aggregates, macroeconomics is concerned with obtaining an overview, or general outline, of the structure of the economy and the relationships between the major aggregates that constitute the economy.

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Is it structured in a manner that makes it easy to add new components?

[to] make it easy

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It is evident that value judgments -- opinions as to what is desirable or undesirable -- come into the picture at this juncture.

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In contrast to our results on deduction with constraints, which have been obtained by abstracting away from algorithmic issues and concentrating on architectural issues, we are taking a growing interest in constraint-solving algorithms.

[to] take a [growing] interest in

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The annual withdrawal of funds to pay taxes was responsible for a significant portion of the outflow, a spokesman for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions said.

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And it reveals the Kremlin's determination to place at risk the entire U.S. nuclear deterrent force of bombers, missiles and submarines.

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It's a lot more helpful to them if they're able to give us a statement voluntarily.

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We have a lot of worldwide experience in government facilities of this type, Bechtel spokesman Larry Miller said.

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The research of the Intelligent Systems Group is concerned with the theoretical principles of artificial intelligence and their application to real-world domains.

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Thursday's arrests marked the third in a series of non-violent civil disobedience actions planned to draw attention to the strike by a Metro Detroit group called Readers United.

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The mass market banks then put in place punitive measures, in the form of prices or policies, to try and conform consumer behavior to the bank's delivery system priorities.

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On the one hand, such a rich grammatical theory makes it possible to write grammars that contain very rich linguistic knowledge.

[to] make it possible

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The last are particularly helpful and will be used throughout this book.

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To illustrate: In considering the relationship between the price of product X and the amount of X purchased, it is most helpful to assume that of all the factors that might influence the amount of X purchased (for example, the price of X, the prices of other goods, consumer incomes and tastes), only the price of X varies.

[to] be [most] helpful

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Use a flat-blade screwdriver or 3/16-inch nutdriver and remove the screw that holds the option in place by turning the screw counterclockwise.

[to] hold [the option] in place

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The Livestock General Directorate (DGE) is in charge of the Livestock sub-sector under the aegis of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MEP) established in 1979.

[to] be in charge of

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By 1972 Canada was falling so far short of attaining even these modest goals that the Economic Council felt compelled to relax them and substitute "indicative targets" to 1975 -- which were not met either.

[to] fall [so far] short of

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Their presence aboard the flight was said to be the motive for the bombing.

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John Shorall, an attorney for WPNT Inc., had no comment on the jury's decision.

[to] have [no] comment on

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The new Government which came to power in April 1984 has expressed a desire to give priority to agriculture development and to remove past obstacles.

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Tim Kelleher, DNA senior vice-president for labor relations, has said the protests will have no effect on negotiations, which union leaders say have been non-existent for months.

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This makes it essential that economists continuously check existing principles and theories against the changing economic environment.

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When operating at this level of analysis, the economist figuratively puts an economic unit, or a very small segment of the economy, under the microscope to observe the details of its operation.

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Doctors say in-office blood analysis is a convenience for patients that has become economically important for physicians because of a change in Medicare reimbursement rules.

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I think this honorary degree from Michigan State will be one of the greatest moments in my life, and I hope to be worthy of it.

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The economist's process of empirical verification is based upon "real world" data generated by the actual operation of the economy.

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Finally, in collaboration with the Advanced Architectures Group, we are working on a project entitled Architectures for Heterogeneous Knowledge Manipulation Systems, which is part of the EPSRC-funded special research programme Architectures for Knowledge Manipulation Systems.

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All sciences are based on facts, that is, upon observable and verifiable behaviour of certain data or subject matter.

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More than 2,100 workers from six unions at the News and Free Press have been on strike since July, the longest newspaper strike in the city's history.

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Suppose detailed factual investigation reveals that, other things being equal, the relationship between the price of wheat per bushel and the amount farmers are willing to produce and offer for sale each year is as shown in Table 1-1.

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Officials have been careful not to reveal much of this material.

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The economist may find it convenient and essential to define terms in such a way that they are clearly at odds with the definitions held by most people in everyday speech.

[to] be [clearly] at odds with

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As price declines, so does the quantity supplied. When two sets of data are directly related, they will always graph as an upsloping line or curve, such as SS in Figure 1-3.

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What occupations are most immune to unemployment?

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In short, cause-and-effect relationships are typically not self-evident in economics: the economist must look carefully before leaping to the conclusion that event A caused event B.

[to] be [typically not] self-evident

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More than 2,100 Teamsters, mailers, typographers, reporters, copy editors, maintenance workers and others went on strike in July over unfair labor practices at both newspapers.

[to] go on strike [in July] over

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Thomas, United Press International's White House bureau chief, will receive an honorary degree from MSU and also speak at the Student Convocation in the Jack Breslin Student Events Center.

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We must be on guard in applying economic models not to impute any ethical or moral qualities to them.

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Moreover, the number of admissions, almost 500 each year, was in no way related to the real need of the Livestock Department in terms of total number of staff and balance between the senior staff and operatives.

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The term "economic law" is a bit misleading because it implies a high degree of exactness, universal application, and even moral rightness.

[to] be [a bit] misleading

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Descriptive economics and economic theory are both concerned with facts -- the former immediately and the latter once removed.

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The report also said top executives of McDonald's and rival Burger King, a unit of Grand Metropolitan PLC, have recently made presentations to top officers at Disney, including Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner, motion picture group chairman Joe Roth and distribution and marketing president Richard Cook.

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For example, when economists say that the average family earned an income of $38,000 in 1985, they are making a generalization.

[to] earn an income of

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GE opened talks May 14 with unions representing 80,000 workers.

[to] open talks [May 14] with

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It also posted a $1.3 billion gain on the sale of its cable operations to Cox Communications.

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It might be useful now to bring the salient points of our discussion together in a brief illustration.

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Also, thrifts were less aggressive about seeking new deposits, in response to new Bank Board regulations aimed at curbing excessive thrift growth, he said.

[to] be [less] aggressive about

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The group said it had gathered new evidence on killings of reporters and had investigated dozens of cases of alleged impunity in incidents involving journalists in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.

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Stephen J. Trafton, chairman and chief executive officer of Glenfed, said, This is another way of poking fun at the big banks in California which seem to operate on the premise that because of their size, it doesn't really matter how many customers they antagonize, irritate and eventually lose.

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This document provides brief descriptions of research projects that are representative of those conducted within the Intelligent Systems Group.

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Principles and theories -- the end result of economic analysis -- bring order and meaning to a number of facts by tying these facts together, putting them in correct relationship to one another, and generalizing upon them.

[to] bring order […] to

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[to] bring […] meaning to

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Although this model of a market is very simple, we will discover that it has wide applicability and great explanatory power.

[to] have [wide] applicability

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The Economic Council of Canada is funded by the Government of Canada to make medium-term studies of economic trends and goals.

[to] make [medium-term] studies of

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One week earlier, 24 people including three bishops, other religious leaders and Detroit City Council President Maryann Mahaffey were carried off in a Detroit police bus after staging a sitdown in front of the Detroit News.

[to] stage a sitdown

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On the other hand, most of us might accept the above goals as generally stated, but we might disagree very substantially as to their specific meanings; thus we would disagree as to the types of policies needed to attain these goals.

[to] attain [these] goals

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Is the information essential for control purposes or decision-making?

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Economics is of practical value in business.

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The first step is to make a clear statement of goals.

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The protest was organized by Readers United, a Metro Detroit group that has staged a series of non- violent, civil disobedience actions to bring attention to the labor dispute that has idled more than 2,000 workers at both papers.

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A typical example: The term "investment" to John Q. Citizen is associated with the buying of bonds and stocks in the securities market.

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Beginning economics students must be willing to shed biases and preconceptions that are simply not warranted by facts.

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More recently we have described two algorithms whose average-case learning behaviours (which we have been able to characterise precisely) we propose should act as yardsticks against which the observed performance of case-based learners can be measured.

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Willes is a strong advocate of stock-oriented executive incentives.

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Officials at the Detroit Newspaper Agency, which manages advertising, circulation and production at the two dailies, said the demonstrations have had no effect on either labor negotiations or in putting out the papers.

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This means that there is a need to study the complexity/learnability divide and come up with a refined but equally expressive grammatical theory that has the advantage of being acquired automatically from corpora.

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Microeconomics is useful in achieving a worm's-eye view of some very specific component of our economic system.

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How Schafer's picture became part of the court file remains a mystery.

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EPCA was due to expire in September 1981, but President Reagan ended oil price controls on January 1 of that year although the existing windfall profits tax remained.

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It gives us a bird's-eye view of the economy.

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Economists have had a spotty record in forecasting the effects of macroeconomic policies -- that is, changes in taxes, government spending, and the money supply -- upon the economy.

[to] have a [spotty] record in

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