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REGULATION, CAPTURE THEORY: Control of a regulatory agency by those entities, usually the businesses of a particular industry, that the agency is designed to regulate. Those industries subject to economic regulation that is intended to protect the public interest (consumers) invariably find it beneficial to exert influence over the regulatory agency. One common way of doing this is to have former or future employees in the industry "temporarily" work for the regulatory agency.

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PHENOMENON

An event or action that is subject to investigation, analysis, and explanation using the scientific method. Phenomena are the sorts of things that science seeks to explain. They can be common events, like the blowing wind, or unusual, like the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time lost in your local discount super center hoping to buy either a rechargeable battery for your computer or shoe laces for your snow boots. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are. "

-- Carl Jung, psychiatrist

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