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CONCAVE: A curve that is 'bowed-in' toward the origin, like entering a cave. Technically speaking, the slope of a concave curve decreases from left to right as the X-axis variable increases.

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PURCHASING POWER: In general the quantities of goods and services that can be bought with a given amount of money. The notable feature of purchasing power is that it declines as prices rise. In particular, inflation is the number one nemesis of purchasing power. When inflation gives higher prices, purchasing power falls. Be careful, though, that you don't get too caught up in the purchasing power of just a single dollar. The real question is not how much stuff one dollar can buy, but how many dollars you have. In other words, while the price of a brand new car might have been $10 when you were a kid (in the good old days), the average annual income was also $20. That's the same purchasing power as a $10,000 car price and a $20,000 income.

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LIMITED LIABILITY

A condition in which owners of a business are not personally held responsible for the debts created by the business. Corporations are the most noted types of business organizations in which owners have limited liability. Limited liability makes it possible for a business to accumulate large sums of money and thus to take advantage of large scale production. The alternative to limited liability is unlimited liability, a characteristic of proprietorships and partnerships.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time visiting every yard sale in a 30-mile radius trying to buy either a decorative windchime with plastic or a flower arrangement for that special day for your mother. Be on the lookout for florescent light bulbs that hum folk songs from the sixties.
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The 1909 Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin with the likeness of a U.S. President.
"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. "

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