profit maximization
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253 books
first published
1 Jun 1989
process to determine the highest profits for a firm
Oscar Wyatt
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9 books
first published
1 Jun 1989
added 23 Jun 2021
an American businessman convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to the UN's Oil-for-Food Programme.
Steve Wynn
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60 books
first published
1 Jun 1989
added 17 Aug 2024
imperial preference
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51 books
first published
15 Jan 1989
system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements
open economy
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168 books
first published
15 Jan 1989
economy favoring cross-border investment and commerce
gunboat diplomacy
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63 books
first published
15 Jan 1989
added 12 Jan 2024
pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power
Potemkin village
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88 books
first published
15 Jan 1989
structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
Mission District
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114 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
added 26 Jun 2024
neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA
John Markoff
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261 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
added 10 Feb 2017
Saturday Night Live
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290 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
American late-night live television sketch comedy show
carbon offset
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162 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
added 7 Oct 2023
reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere
Clifford Stoll
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20 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
added 30 Jul 2024
American astronomer
Skype
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798 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
sustainable-tourism
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114 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
a form of tourism that aims to have a low impact on the environment and local culture while helping to generate income and employment.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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98 books
first published
2 Jan 1989
a mathematician known for his work on fractals
interest rate swap
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125 books
first published
1989
linear interest rate derivative involving exchange of interest rates between two parties
Apollo 13
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150 books
first published
1989
added 5 Jun 2022
a 1970 NASA mission that suffered a critical failure but returned safely to Earth
Ted Sorensen
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23 books
first published
1989
added 8 May 2023
John Meriwether
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59 books
first published
1989
added 24 Apr 2017
American financier
Irwin Jacobs
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12 books
first published
1989
added 21 Feb 2017
psychological pricing
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14 books
first published
15 Dec 1988
theory that certain prices have a psychological impact
Wilhelm Olbers
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6 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
retrograde motion
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18 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
the apparent backward motion of a planet as observed from Earth
Gary Taubes
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38 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
an American journalist and author who focuses on scientific topics, particularly those related to nutrition and health
anthropic principle
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54 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it
Murray Gell-Mann
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78 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
added 29 Dec 2016
an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 for his work on the theory of elementary particles
deep time
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95 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
added 24 Aug 2024
Albert Michelson
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36 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
American physicist, speed of light measurement
Karl Jansky
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8 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
American physicist and radio engineer
Richard Feynman
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316 books
first published
30 Jun 1988
added 30 Dec 2016
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
belling the cat
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14 books
first published
31 May 1988
added 2 Nov 2021
a fable about the impracticality of a plan that requires great risk
data acquisition
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87 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
sum of methods of simultaneous or sequential time measurement and counting for measurable or quantifiable data and groups of contiguous data
Shoshana Zuboff
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89 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
added 27 Apr 2017
American sociologist, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and author
social web
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111 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
World Wide Web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier Web sites
demand response
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58 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
techniques used to prevent power networks from being overwhelmed
optical character recognition
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79 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
the technology used to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents or PDF files, into editable and searchable data
future of work
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226 books
first published
14 Apr 1988
study of potential changes to work
guest worker program
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33 books
first published
31 Mar 1988
program where foreign workers temporarily reside and work in a host country
game design
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264 books
first published
31 Mar 1988
game development process of designing the content and rules of a game
white flight
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174 books
first published
2 Jan 1988
solo project of Justin Roelofs
false flag
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98 books
first published
2 Jan 1988
added 4 Jun 2023
airport security
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293 books
first published
2 Jan 1988
procedures to protect passengers, staff, and planes
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
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28 books
first published
1988
added 15 Nov 2021
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
Live Aid
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50 books
first published
1988
added 12 Feb 2017
a benefit concert held in 1985 to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia
life extension
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148 books
first published
1988
scientific and medical research aimed at extending the human lifespan
virtual gold
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21 books
first published
11 Sep 1987
added 11 Oct 2023
no-fly zone
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89 books
first published
6 Jul 1987
added 6 Apr 2022
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
Exxon Valdez
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127 books
first published
6 Jul 1987
an oil tanker that spilled 10.8 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, causing one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history
space junk
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49 books
first published
1 Jun 1987
added 22 Dec 2022
collection of defunct objects in orbit
mutually assured destruction
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226 books
first published
1 Jun 1987
a military strategy and national security policy where the full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both
Jones Act
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26 books
first published
15 Jan 1987
added 15 Oct 2020
rent-seeking
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253 books
first published
15 Jan 1987
attempt to obtain economic rent
total factor productivity
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83 books
first published
15 Jan 1987
a measure of the efficiency with which inputs are transformed into outputs in an economy, often seen as an indicator of technological progress.
DeepMind
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164 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
added 5 Aug 2023
artificial intelligence company owned by Google
price mechanism
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159 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
concept in economics
knowledge worker
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257 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
worker whose main capital is knowledge
supply-chain management
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147 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
the management of the flow of goods and services, involving the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods
An Inconvenient Truth
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137 books
first published
2 Jan 1987
added 6 Mar 2022
2006 film by Davis Guggenheim