Instantaneous Gratification

Time is the new luxury item.

Beige Book

Federal Reserve

Article about the Beige Book on "The Street"

Contributory Negligence

Legal rule that an angry or injured complainant might have added to his own injury because of being negligent of known or obvious conditions.

What is CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE? definition of CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE (Black's Law Dictionary)

Terms of Service

Are these lengthy contracts reasonable?

Mathemagics!

Double Entry, Jane Gleeson-White @ Amazon

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Bookish Girl

The Wealth of Nations

The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith @ Amazon

More on Adam Smith:

Library of Economics and Liberty

Immoral Practices

"One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice"

-Aldous Huxley

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Declaratory Relief

n. a judge's determination (called a "declaratory judgment") of the parties' rights under a contract or a statute often requested (prayed) for information in a lawsuit over a contract. The theory is that an early resolution of legal rights will resolve some or all of the other issues in the matter. (See: declaratory judgment)

Legal Dictionry Definition of "Declaratory Relief"

Epidemiology

the branch of medicine dealing with the incidence and prevalence of disease in large populations and with detection of the source and cause of epidemics  of infectious disease.