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CHANGE IN PRIVATE INVENTORIES: The increase or decrease in the stocks of final goods, intermediate goods, raw materials, and other inputs that businesses keep on hand to use in production. Formerly termed change in business inventories, this is one of two main categories of gross private domestic investment included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other category is fixed investment. Change in private inventories tend to be about 3 to 5 percent of gross private domestic investment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel hoping to buy either a black duffle bag with velcro closures or any book written by Isaac Asimov. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), a champion of the scientific method, died when he caught a severe cold while attempting to preserve a chicken by filling it with snow.
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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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