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  • She had dropped off over her economics text.†   (source)
  • I explained to him before we started that I had very little knowledge of economics.†   (source)
  • As if in an economics class I had been ushered over into a column of transmutable commodities: the Murdered.†   (source)
  • Is learning English, French (correspondence course), shorthand in Dutch, English and German, commercial correspondence in English, woodworking, economics and sometimes math; seldom reads, sometimes geography.†   (source)
  • Of course, thanks to the magical economics of supersizing, it cost only thirty cents more than the sixteen-ounce "small."†   (source)
  • The 2003 Harvard University study about immigrant effects on wages is "The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market," by George J. Borjas, professor of economics and social policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.†   (source)
  • It was the Pakistani table, with a display sponsored by the Economics Club, detailing how the market for maunds (a Pakistani unit of measurement) of rice was falling.†   (source)
  • I have home economics after lunch—not because I necessarily care about cooking, but because it was either that or choir.†   (source)
  • He tried to get a statistics or economics journal to publish his study, but found no takers.†   (source)
  • I don't know Economics?†   (source)
  • As part of the festivities, Coke executives had lectured the students on economics and helped them bake a Coca-Cola cake.†   (source)
  • The group studied politics, philosophy, economics — the dynamics of social revolution.†   (source)
  • He's got like how many degrees in foreign affairs and economics but all he wants to do is squat under a tree and watch tribal people pack mud all over their bodies.†   (source)
  • The man in the street can't be expected to know enough about politics, economics, world commerce and what have you.†   (source)
  • Politics, economics, social systems, bills, family, commitments …. it can all be a bit overwhelming.†   (source)
  • One such girl from Mobile, or Meridian, or Aiken who did not sweat in her armpits nor between her thighs, who smelled of wood and vanilla, who had made souffles in the Home Economics Department, moved with her husband, Louis, to Lorain, Ohio.†   (source)
  • I could tell he was going to say something serious, because he was very shy, and I'd heard him clear his throat in that same way before giving an important economics lecture.†   (source)
  • Its two buildings (main classrooms, the grade school and home economics) were set on a dirt hill with no fence to limit either its boundaries or those of bordering farms.†   (source)
  • The thesis was to be an "interpretive anthropology of affliction," combining evidence from ethnography, history, epidemiology, and economics.†   (source)
  • I was saying that I—I don't know much about government and economics and all that, and I don't want to know much, but I do know that the Federal Government to me, to one small citizen, is mostly dreary hallways and waiting around.†   (source)
  • Lindberg had gone from school to the Stockholm School of Economics and into the banking business.†   (source)
  • "Who would've thought economics would come in useful?"†   (source)
  • Nancy was invariably the last of the family to retire; as she had once informed her friend and home-economics teacher, Mrs. Polly Stringer, the midnight hours were her "time to be selfish and vain."†   (source)
  • A professor at Sterling College, his specialty was the economics of happiness.†   (source)
  • Leo wasn't sure whether he felt relieved or insulted that the combat trainer was interrogating Frank, while Leo got the home economics teacher.†   (source)
  • It was based on economics rather than emotion.†   (source)
  • Its materialistic analysis of economics rang true to me.†   (source)
  • Recently, she had begun spreading her wings, taking adult courses in real estate and international economics and business management, dreaming of a bigger-than-family-size life for herself.†   (source)
  • Next semester we'll have to take economics, though.†   (source)
  • Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work—whereas economics represents how it actually does work.†   (source)
  • His father got his degree from Cambridge University and was an economics professor.†   (source)
  • Sir Basil asked me about it, and I told him that he was asking the wrong guy—I mean, my degrees are in economics and history, not physics.†   (source)
  • Newt and the Raineys left the more abstruse questions to others and spent most of their time trying to reckon the economics of a visit to town.†   (source)
  • Roshaneh brought in another dynamic Pakistani woman, Sadaffe Abid, who had studied economics at Mount Holyoke College.†   (source)
  • During home economics class, I asked her friend Laura to the prom—our first date.†   (source)
  • Coal companies will tell you the decision to do surface versus deep mining is based on geology, topography, and pure economics.†   (source)
  • Courtesy of the CAI, both Jahan and Tahira were taking a full complement of classes at the private Girls' Model High School, including English grammar, formal Urdu, Arabic, physics, economics, and history.†   (source)
  • I was soon to be Remy Starr, formerly of Lakeview, now of Stanford, undecided major, leaning toward economics.†   (source)
  • She is known around Brown by administrators and professors (her husband, Mark, is an emeritus professor of economics), and referrals come, randomly but steadily, from around the university's circumference.†   (source)
  • Even her fancy economics degree from UNC didn't buy her a pass.†   (source)
  • Did you study economics?†   (source)
  • In economics we call it obfuscation with a cloud of smoke and a couple of mirrors.†   (source)
  • His face becomes animated like he's genuinely fascinated by the economics of post-apocalyptic gambling.†   (source)
  • "I don't see why there's so much fuss about that Equalization of Opportunity Bill," said Betty Pope aggressively, in the tone of an expert on economics.†   (source)
  • He thinks one reason for the change is that the women's movement has progressed to more important issues like economics and is willing to let the semantic issues find a place that is comfortable for the women who are using the terms.†   (source)
  • She'd never really thought beyond graduating from the college of home economics, marrying someone with possibilities and having a couple of kids.†   (source)
  • Morality gave way to economics and the English agreed to an arrangement.†   (source)
  • I can't imagine myself believing in trigonometry or accounting, and yet you guide your soul according to a theory of economics.†   (source)
  • Prof made sure that Mike knew history, psychology, economics, name it.†   (source)
  • And, no, said MI5, it had no evidence to suggest that Nasser was anything more than what he claimed to be, which was a graduate student in economics at King's College.†   (source)
  • Economics comes down to food in the end.†   (source)
  • But he did not know the economics.†   (source)
  • The economics of disaster placed a penalty upon prejudice.†   (source)
  • He said it was all part of the pattern of economics—economic injustice.†   (source)
  • When one possessed such power and such resources, one could not be bothered with minor economics.†   (source)
  • Yet no matter how sophisticated they may be in matters of economics, sojourners from the South (or anywhere else in the hinterland) rarely fail to be dumfounded by New York's tariffs and prices, and my father was no exception, grumbling darkly over the dinner check for two: I think it was around four dollars—imagine!†   (source)
  • I have heard hairdressers quoted with complete conviction in art, literature, politics, economics, child care, and morals.†   (source)
  • So I stopped and thought and read up on economics.†   (source)
  • We were a raffish bunch of overgrown streetwise kids sprawled in the cafeteria, chomping homemade sandwiches, arguing noisily about politics, literature, history, and economics, seething with intellectual contempt for the smooth fraternity crowd and filled with secret envy for the fraternity boys' social polish and devil-may-care ways with women.†   (source)
  • They'd been away to college and learned about economics.†   (source)
  • Could be a schoolmaster, cxLondon School of Economics and runs a suburban drama club.†   (source)
  • It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a "dismal science."  But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.   (source)
  • Instead he studied economics in Stockholm.†   (source)
  • The nurse's station is the room beside the home economics kitchen.†   (source)
  • And being a teacher of economics got you here?†   (source)
  • Geography: hills, etc. Stuff: economics, politics, history.†   (source)
  • Only after Maman asked did he reveal that he had started teaching economics at the Sorbonne.†   (source)
  • He also has a degree in economics from Oxford and a law degree from Melbourne.†   (source)
  • He enrolled in a basic economics course.†   (source)
  • But there was also an author's name: Lewis Houghton, Sterling College Dept. of Economics.†   (source)
  • They did not know if it was a war of ideology or economics or hegemony or spite.†   (source)
  • Is it economics that you're talking about?†   (source)
  • But one day, Mac Maharaj told a comrade who was studying economics to request The Economist.†   (source)
  • Especially the, oh, more repressive aspects of Smithian Economics.†   (source)
  • What you claim is impossible; I am expert in Lunar economics.†   (source)
  • Yes, economics-history, theory, prices, inflation, why not?†   (source)
  • He has a master's degree in economics," Fereshteh explained.†   (source)
  • Which was probably why it was a mistake to say, "But this is economics, not literature.†   (source)
  • Drug dealers are rarely trained in economics, and economists rarely hang out with crack dealers.†   (source)
  • "Related in origin, developed independently; that's economics nonsense.†   (source)
  • Do you know what Mrs. Stringer says?" said Jolene, naming her home-economics teacher.†   (source)
  • The London School of Economics,' said Sheng Chou Yang, unable to stop himself.†   (source)
  • 'They're deep into their own form of economics.†   (source)
  • He has a master's in economics," I said.†   (source)
  • Now is that good economics or sound social efficiency or democratic justice?†   (source)
  • Would you be surprised to learn that I have read a book on economics?†   (source)
  • He was an accountant; you were going after a doctorate in economics.†   (source)
  • He was Lewis Houghton, professor of economics.†   (source)
  • We actually call it Chihahigh Economics.†   (source)
  • Economics is above all a science of measurement.†   (source)
  • We'll keep the sphere of politics and give you total power over the sphere of economics.†   (source)
  • With early training in agricultural economics, he wanted to tackle world hunger.†   (source)
  • I learned that much in Economics Eight at the University of Arizona.†   (source)
  • Something to do with economics, I believe.†   (source)
  • We are useless, according to your economics.†   (source)
  • I'm a schoolteacher from Maine — economics, I'm afraid.'†   (source)
  • Economics, and some unresolved technical problems.†   (source)
  • Psychology, English, economics.†   (source)
  • In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.†   (source)
  • Naturally they develop the antidotes at the same time as they're customizing the bugs, but they hold those in reserve, they practise the economics of scarcity, so they're guaranteed high profits."†   (source)
  • The subjects were economics and politics, the Depression, the situation in Europe, the worrisome advances being made by World Communism.†   (source)
  • Correspondence courses in English, French and Latin, shorthand in English, German and Dutch, trigonometry, solid geometry, mechanics, physics, chemistry, algebra, geometry, English literature, French literature, German literature, Dutch literature, bookkeeping, geography, modern history, biology, economics; reads everything, preferably on religion and medicine.†   (source)
  • A tangy scent of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and chocolate wafted around the home economics building as the budding cooks made samples for themselves and their teachers.†   (source)
  • So no, I'm not too big on religion," Jesus said a little sarcastically, "and not very fond of politics or economics either."†   (source)
  • Timothy Bates, a professor of economics at Wayne State University, believes that the IFA has vastly overstated the benefits of franchising.†   (source)
  • They go to land-grant colleges, normal schools, and learn how to do the white man's work with refinement: home economics to prepare his food; teacher education to instruct black children in obedience; music to soothe the weary master and entertain his blunted soul.†   (source)
  • Sarah leads us to the safest room she can think of, which is the home economics kitchen down the hall.†   (source)
  • Also—he never looked up to acknowledge the grunts of acceptance—also, we were bound to get some new equipment for the home economics building and the workshop.†   (source)
  • It was never too early, he said, for me to learn the simple principles of economics, which I would need to know in order to act responsibly, when I was older.†   (source)
  • The behavior of Idaho's potato growers often betrays a type of faulty reasoning described in most college-level economics textbooks.†   (source)
  • WIND FROM THE OPEN WINDOW RUSHES INTO the home economics room, the refrigerator in front of it doing little to prevent the cold air.†   (source)
  • Paul Patterson, an extension professor of agricultural economics at the University of Idaho, describes the current market for potatoes as an "oligopsony" — a market in which a small number of buyers exert power over a large number of sellers.†   (source)
  • "The thought had crossed my mind, but it's no good: he was plugging away at the Stockholm School of Economics and had no connection with the Vanger companies at the time she disappeared."†   (source)
  • I've been called a communist and a socialist, a "dunce," a "health fascist," an "economics ignoramus," a "banjo-strumming performer at Farm Aid," a "hectoring nanny of the nanny state," and much stronger epithets.†   (source)
  • Where's home economics?†   (source)
  • He was a fixture in the People's Republic's economics group and we were both assigned to the trade conferences in Peking in the late seventies.†   (source)
  • Needless to say, when I suggested that he consider majoring in business or economics, he ignored my advice and chose sociology.†   (source)
  • In Home Economics, which really means cooking and sewing, I've learned how to install a zipper and make a flat-fell seam, and now I make a lot of my clothes myself because it's cheaper, although they don't always turn out exactly like the picture on the front of the pattern.†   (source)
  • I figured it would be a good way to experience some real-time economics while at the same time studying the larger trends.†   (source)
  • This double murderer, this monster, looked like the water polo team captain who had sat next to me in an economics seminar last semester.†   (source)
  • Why was an attractive woman with dark red hair and skin obviously nurtured on a farm somewhere pretending to be a doctor of economics?†   (source)
  • He was the classic Renaissance man: he spoke four languages, spent a year studying at the London School of Economics, and had paid his way through school with a baseball scholarship.†   (source)
  • Many times, here at night, I've closed my eyes and walked along the forbidden road that winds past the girls' dormitories, past the hall with the clock in the tower, its windows warmly aglow, on down past the small white Home Economics practice cottage, whiter still in the moonlight, and on down the road with its sloping and turning, paralleling the black powerhouse with its engines droning earth-shaking rhythms in the dark, its windows red from the glow of the furnace, on to where the…†   (source)
  • Fascinated by the course he had taken in the summer, he decided to focus on economics when he returned to Davidson.†   (source)
  • In the 1790s, it was common to dismiss the abolitionists as idealistic moralizers who didn't appreciate economics or understand geopolitical complexities such as the threat from France.†   (source)
  • By now, he understands that Maura knows what to write on her pad and the sleepers will be able to skim the required readings, all of them guided by some mysterious encoded knowledge of history, economics, and education, of culture and social events, that they picked up in school or at home or God knows where.†   (source)
  • "Pakistan's dysfunctional educational system made advancing Wahhabi doctrine a simple matter of economics.†   (source)
  • Within weeks of returning to school, he met another prospective economics major, a girl named Lauren.†   (source)
  • That's when I started living, Mannie; I studied politics and economics and history and learned to speak in public and turned out to have a flair for organization.†   (source)
  • A senior World Bank official told a maternal health conference in London in 2007, with typical enthusiasm: "Investing in better health for women and their children is just smart economics.†   (source)
  • I am deeply impressed by a woman who, for no reason other than her own fascination, has read twenty books on economics.†   (source)
  • …Minister of Information, Terence Sheehan (Sheenie turned Pravda over to managing editor to work with Adam and Stu); Special Minister-without-Portfolio in Ministry of Information, Stuart Rene LaJoie, Congressman-at-Large; Secretary of State for Economics and Finance (and Custodian of Enemy Property), Wolfgang Korsakov; Minister of Interior Affairs and Safety, Comrade "Clayton" Watenabe; Minter-without-Portfolio and Special Advisor to Prime Minister, Adam Selene—plus a dozen ministers…†   (source)
  • "If you ever decide to get out of economics," said Jason, poring through the Paris telephone book, "go into sales.†   (source)
  • Shortly before our first anniversary Reza graduated with a master's degree in economics, and Moody invited him to stay with us in Corpus Christi until he could find a job.†   (source)
  • Early last summer, he'd signed up for an economics class at the local community college, and to Amanda and Frank's enormous pride and relief he announced soon thereafter that he'd decided to re-enroll full-time at Davidson in the fall.†   (source)
  • Roshaneh grew up in a wealthy, emancipated family of intellectuals who allowed her to study at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and later earn her MA in development economics at Yale.†   (source)
  • And maybe she had been guilty of not listening to Lewis when he needed to talk, because nothing he had to say about economics seminars or publications or current events really seemed to matter anymore, not when her son was sitting in jail.†   (source)
  • It was as if he felt that in a clarified understanding of the workings of economics he could make himself comfortable with the notion of eternity-but due to the minimal relation of economics and eternity, he was forced to calculate faster and faster, and to no avail.†   (source)
  • As Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian put it in a 2008 article in The Review of Economics and Statistics: We find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth.†   (source)
  • She gravitated first to history, then reasoned that most of history was shaped by economic forces-power and significance had to be paid for-and so she tested the theories of economics.†   (source)
  • As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.†   (source)
  • I believe you've met my husband, he's the teacher of economics who works as linesman for Dick McNamara.†   (source)
  • Economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.†   (source)
  • Economics.†   (source)
  • But, my good man, she's an unusual phenomenon in the field of economics, so you must expect people to talk about her.†   (source)
  • But the tools of economics can be just as easily applied to subjects that are more—well, more interesting.†   (source)
  • I think it may fit your economics-'†   (source)
  • She had found another life in the stratified layers of higher economics, with a doctorate and gainful employment with the Canadian Government.†   (source)
  • It is worth remembering that Adam Smith, the founder of classical economics, was first and foremost a philosopher.†   (source)
  • She talked economics, instead of glamor, for press interviews, in the belligerently righteous style of a third-rate tabloid; her economics consisted of the assertion that "we've got to help the poor.†   (source)
  • If some man like Hugh Akston had told me, when I started, that by accepting the mystics' theory of sex I was accepting the looters' theory of economics, I would have laughed in his face.†   (source)
  • Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach.†   (source)
  • Initially because he took to the English language so fluently and had a firm, even sophisticated, grasp of Western economics.'†   (source)
  • If economics is a science primarily concerned with incentives, it is also—fortunately—a science with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives.†   (source)
  • He was considered promising material, and after in-depth indoctrination was sent to the London School of Economics for graduate study.†   (source)
  • A passenger, who was a professor of economics, remarked to his companion: "Of what importance is an individual in the titanic collective achievements of our industrial age?"†   (source)
  • If you thought about it at all, you had to assume that I'd come to Ottawa to gain a firmer grasp of European economics so as to do my job better.†   (source)
  • Yes, this approach employs the best analytical tools that economics can offer, but it also allows us to follow whatever freakish curiosities may occur to us.†   (source)
  • Frantic cowards who posture as defenders of industrialists now define the purpose of economics as 'an adjustment between the unlimited desires of men and the goods supplied in limited quantity.'†   (source)
  • If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of Feldman's bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics.†   (source)
  • Economics aside, this is a conspiracy to undermine the leadership of a suspicious, authoritarian regime.†   (source)
  • That's not economics!†   (source)
  • In a paper called "The Economics of 'Acting White,' " the young black Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. argues that some black students "have tremendous disincentives to invest in particular behaviors (i.e., education, ballet, etc.) due to the fact that they may be deemed a person who is trying to act like a white person (a. k.a. 'selling-out').†   (source)
  • An action not caused by an entity would be caused by a zero, which would mean a zero controlling a thing, a nonentity controlling an entity, the non-existent ruling the existent-which is the universe of your teachers' desire, the cause of their doctrines of causeless action, the reason of their revolt against reason, the goal of their morality, their politics, their economics, the ideal they strive for: the reign of the zero.†   (source)
  • …perception —let the head-hunter who does not choose to accept the validity of logic, try to prove it without using logic-let the pigmy who proclaims that a skyscraper needs no foundation after it reaches its fiftieth story, yank the base from under his building, not yours-let the cannibal who snarls that the freedom of man's mind was needed to create an industrial civilization, but is not needed to maintain it, be given an arrowhead and bearskin, not a university chair of economics.†   (source)
  • The man in Roomette 2, Car No. 9, was a professor of economics who advocated the abolition of private property, explaining that intelligence plays no part in industrial production, that man's mind is conditioned by material tools, that anybody can run a factory or a railroad and it's only a matter of seizing the machinery.†   (source)
  • Well, one of them is a professor of economics who couldn't get a job outside, because he taught that you can't consume more than you have produced-one is a professor of history who couldn't get a job because he taught that the inhabitants of slums were not the men who made this country-and one is a professor of psychology who couldn't get a job because he taught that men are capable of thinking.†   (source)
  • In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.†   (source)
  • We're ruled by a Council of eight directors, representing Production, Power, Social Engineering, Art, Economics, Science, Sport, and Philosophy.†   (source)
  • Mainly economics.†   (source)
  • Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics.†   (source)
  • I could no longer think that the tides of economics were not my concern.†   (source)
  • To take some from one side and give it to the other, the same old economics.†   (source)
  • He can marry a good pure woman and have any number of fine sons and daughters, all of whom may be brought up in the Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian faiths, and given splendid courses in Economics, Commercial Law, and the Fine Arts, at the State university.†   (source)
  • There are poems and plays and criticism; there are histories and biographies, books of travel and books of scholarship and research; there are even a few philosophies and books about science and economics.†   (source)
  • You know, the schools, the home economics, the care of babies, the juvenile delinquents and all the rest of it—all to be under one head.†   (source)
  • We are not dealing here with man as he is known to economics and statistics, as he is seen thronging the streets by the million, and of whom no more account can be made than of the sand of the sea or the spray of its waves.†   (source)
  • If he must dabble in science, keep him on economics and sociology; don't let him get away from that invaluable "real life".†   (source)
  • …by the situation whose need it answered: a crone mumbling in a dungeon lighted by a handful of burning hair, something in a tongue which not even the girls themselves understand anymore, maybe not even the crone herself, rooted in nothing of economics for her or for any possible progeny since the very fact that we acquiesced, suffered the farce, was her proof and assurance of that which the ceremony itself could never enforce; vesting no new rights in anyone, denying to none the old—a…†   (source)
  • It was true that I could make money go farther, but Lucy thought less about economics than Charlotte.†   (source)
  • And then, after you have exhausted a milliard lifetimes in biology and medicine and theocriticism and geography and history and economics —why, you can start to make a cartwheel out of the appropriate wood, or spend fifty years learning to begin to learn to beat your adversary at fencing.†   (source)
  • It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great powerof trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of the experiences of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred peoples into a whole.†   (source)
  • Aunt Adeline had expected to see him go in for economics and sociology; she half feared that he would end up as a social worker.†   (source)
  • She had visited the settlement often with her uncle, who conducted classes in economics there, and she had become interested in the work.†   (source)
  • Economics had interested him and he was turning socialist.†   (source)
  • He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics of Yale.†   (source)
  • …community emerged from the gust-blown vestments, the dean of studies, the portly florid bursar with his cap of grey hair, the president, the little priest with feathery hair who wrote devout verses, the squat peasant form of the professor of economics, the tall form of the young professor of mental science discussing on the landing a case of conscience with his class like a giraffe cropping high leafage among a herd of antelopes, the grave troubled prefect of the sodality, the plump…†   (source)
  • Such a student, if he be bright, will profit more by an experience like this than he could profit by all the books on sociology and economics that ever were written.†   (source)
  • He was supposed to be a college graduate but he knew nothing of economics, nothing of history, nothing of music or painting.†   (source)
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