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ZONING: Legal restrictions on where different activities can locate within a city. Most cities regulate the location of industrial, commercial, and residential activities. The underlying motivation behind zoning is to keep less desirable, but perhaps more profitable, activities from encroaching upon residential areas.
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RATIONING The distribution or allocation of a limited commodity, usually accomplished based on a standard or criterion. The two primary methods of rationing are markets and governments. Rationing is needed due to the scarcity problem. Because wants and needs are unlimited, but resources are limited, available commodities must be rationed out to competing uses.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a dollar discount store wanting to buy either a coffee cup commemorating the 2000 Olympics or a birthday gift for your grandmother. Be on the lookout for vindictive digital clocks with revenge on their minds.
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Much of the $15 million used by the United States to finance the Louisiana Purchase from France was borrowed from European banks.
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"You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow. " -- Norman Cousins, editor
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