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FARM PROBLEM: The short-run situation in which weather variability creates large fluctuations in farm prices, combined with the long-run situation in which technological advances increase production capabilities even though the demand for agricultural production declines relative to the growth of the overall economy. Taken together these two situations lead to highly unstable farm incomes that tend to decline over time. The solution to this problem has been significant government intervention in the agricultural industry, especially through assorted subsidies and price floors.
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REDUNDANT INFORMATION Information received by the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell) that is old, familiar, and usual. Because redundant information is not presumed to be threatening it can be largely ignored by the automatic response that is commonly termed the "fight or flight" reaction. The alternative is novel information, which is unfamiliar and potentially threatening.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store trying to buy either a video camera with stop action features or one of those memory foam pillows. Be on the lookout for attractive cable television service repair people.
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Helping spur the U.S. industrial revolution, Thomas Edison patented nearly 1300 inventions, 300 of which came out of his Menlo Park "invention factory" during a four-year period.
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"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. " -- Carl Jung, psychiatrist
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FSL
Federal Savings and Loan Association
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