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BUREAUCRAT: Someone who works in a bureaucracy. Usually the term bureaucrat is used as a deregulatory, even profane, description of a government employee (such as "that dirty faceless bureaucrat"), indicating that the person would need serious genetic restructuring to be included in the human race. Closer genetic inspection (and the theory of public choice), however, indicates that the real culprit is complex bureaucracies and the rules under which they operate.
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PERFECTLY INELASTIC An elasticity alternative in which changes in one variable (usually price) do NOT cause any changes in another variable (usually quantity). Quantity is totally, completely unresponsive to price. Quantity just does not change, regardless of changes in price. This characterization of elasticity is most important for the price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply. Perfectly inelastic is one of five elasticity alternatives. The other four are perfectly elastic, relatively elastic, relatively inelastic, and unit elastic.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages trying to buy either a remote controlled train set or a genuine down-filled snow parka. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots. Your Complete Scope
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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"The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up. " -- Rod Laver, Tennis player
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SMSA Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
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