Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1921-, American economist, b. New York City, grad. City College of New York (B.S. 1940), Columbia (M.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1951). He taught economics at the Univ. of Chicago (1947-49) and Stanford Univ. (1949-68) before serving on the faculty at Harvard (1968-79). A member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1962), he has been a consultant for the RAND Corp. since 1948. A specialist in welfare economics and general equilibrium theory, he shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Sir John Richard Hicks . Arrow's publications include Social Choice and Individual Values (2d ed. 1963), Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing (1965), General Competitive Analysis (1972), and The Economics of Information (1984); he has also edited Barriers to Conflict Resolution (1995) and Increasing Returns and Economic Analysis (1998).
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SPARK OF TRUTH TO THE SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION MYTH.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/11/1994; 700+ words
; ...be the next victim of spontaneous human combustion. You know what we're...call SHC. Q: What is spontaneous human combustion, anyway? A: First of...a more benighted age, spontaneous combustion was considered the reward...
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Spying on spontaneous combustion. (communications technology, mine safety)
Magazine article from: World Mining Equipment; 11/1/1994; 700+ words
; ...optics might help locate spontaneous combustion underground. Distributed...could identify and locate spontaneous combustion earlier than conventional...to be taken. Detecting spontaneous combustion Friction and spontaneous...
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ADVISORY/Spontaneous Combustion to Perform at JavaOne Conference.
Business Wire; 6/1/2001; 491 words
; ...JavaOne Attendee's WHO: Spontaneous Combustion, a cappella quartet made...employee Jeff Bird. WHAT: Spontaneous Combustion will be singing Monday June...Developers Conference. Spontaneous Combustion will entertain conference...
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Spontaneous combustion starts fire.(Fires)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 5/18/2007; 543 words
; ...motor home early Thursday. Spontaneous combustion of rags and rollers that...more than $200,000. Spontaneous combustion happens when oxidation occurs...above its ignition point, spontaneous combustion occurs. Vegetable oil...
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Spontaneous human combustion: thoughts of a forensic biologist.
Magazine article from: Skeptical Inquirer; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...alleged) phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion (SHC). After reading...having heard about cases of spontaneous combustion, although' he had never...case reports of alleged spontaneous combustion cases. The cases had received...
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Vic:Spontaneous combustion blamed for factory fire
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 6/25/2005; 282 words
; ...Australia) 06-25-2005 Vic:Spontaneous combustion blamed for factory fire MELBOURNE, June 25 AAP - Spontaneous combustion has been blamed for a fire...Fire Brigade spokesman said spontaneous combustion occurred in oats, which...
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Chinese Breakthrough in Detecting Coal Spontaneous Combustion
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 4/8/1997; 409 words
; ...discovery in monitoring the spontaneous combustion in coal fields, research...possible international use. Spontaneous combustion in coal mines causes vast...cooperative project for monitoring spontaneous combustion in coalfields in north China...
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Country's first couple arrive Friday Singers McGraw, Hill bring Spontaneous Combustion Tour to Bradley Center
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/17/1996; ; 700+ words
; The Spontaneous Combustion Tour obviously struck some sparks...and Faith Hill embarked on the Spontaneous Combustion Tour back in March, they were...honeymoon. The good news is that the Spontaneous Combustion Tour will be at the Bradley Center...
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SHOP 'TIL YOU DROP.(Spontaneous Combustion)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Post; 6/18/2001; 521 words
; NEW YORK -- Spontaneous Combustion (www.spon.com) created...why they love T.J. Maxx. Spontaneous Combustion design director Dana Yee and...letters in Discreet Flame. The Spontaneous team included Flame artist Claudia...
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Spontaneous combustion cause of Monday fire.
Newspaper article from: Benton County Daily Record; 9/8/2007; 447 words
; BENTON COUNTY - Spontaneous combustion was the determined cause of a fire that burned 50 tons of...Hanna said some hay was put up wet, which causes the spontaneous combustion. (Benton County Daily Record) To read the full text of...
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...1850s following the use of spontaneous combustion as a means of disposing...incidents appear to be cases of spontaneous combustion in the ancient literature...The first American case of spontaneous combustion was that of Hannah Bradshaw...
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spontaneous combustion
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
spontaneous combustion Outbreak of fire without external application of heat. Phosphorous, for example, ignites spontaneously in air. When combustible...
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Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...woman, not the trailer, who had burst into flames. How can human flesh be heir to such dangers as spontaneous combustion? Spontaneous combustion, it is assumed, is confined to oily rags and newspapers piled up in poorly ventilated corners of...
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spontaneous human combustion
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
spontaneous human combustion On the morning of 2 July 1951, Mary Reeser, of St Petersburg...grisly cases, recorded over the past three centuries, of spontaneous human combustion ( SHC ). What happened in this case and others like it...
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combustion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...amount of oxygen in the air. The nature of combustion was not always clearly understood. The ancient...to the modern understanding of the nature of combustion. See spontaneous combustion ; heat of combustion . Bibliography: See C...
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