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FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION: An agency of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services that deals with the safety and effectiveness of food, cosmetics, drugs, and medical implements. It was formally established in 1906 to investigate and test what turned out to be some pretty dangerous and disgusting food additives that were being fed to an unaware public. The FDA is now charged with the task of keeping food and drugs free of hazardous additives and to ensure that they perform as promised. Drugs must undergo rigorous, lengthy tests on animals and humans to prove they're safe and effective.
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DERIVATION, PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES CURVE A production possibilities curve, which illustrates the alternative combinations of two goods that an economy can produce with given resources and technology, is often derived from a production possibilities schedule. This derivation involves plotting each bundle from the production possibilities schedule as a point in a diagram measuring the two goods on the vertical and horizontal axes.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time touring the new suburban shopping complex seeking to buy either an ink cartridge for your printer or a rechargeable battery for your camera. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties. Your Complete Scope
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John Maynard Keynes was born the same year Karl Marx died.
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." -- Leslie Poles Hartley, Writer
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SUR Seemingly Unrelated Regressions
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