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ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY: Obtaining the most consumer satisfaction from available resources. Allocative efficiency means that our economy is doing the best job possible of satisfying unlimited wants and needs with limited resources -- that is, of addressing the problem of scarcity.
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PART-TIME WORKERS People who are willing and able to work full-time (over 35 hours per week), but are forced to work less because employers do not need their productive efforts. While part-time workers officially have jobs, and are officially included in the "employed" category when the official unemployment rate is calculated, their labor resources are really only partially unemployed. A person working 20 hours a week, who is willing and able to work 40 hours a week, really should be considered as "half employed."
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time at a flea market trying to buy either a how-to book on surfing the Internet or a computer that can play music and burn CDs. Be on the lookout for letters from the Internal Revenue Service.
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Approximately three-fourths of the U.S. paper currency in circular contains traces of cocaine.
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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." -- Lewis Carroll, writer
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ICTB
International Customs Tariffs Bureau
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