No, the challenges of a post-Industrial society are less like conquests with clear endpoints than they are steady-state concerns.

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My response wasn't that intense, but I floated in and out of states that included suspense, surprise, delight and shock, all of them adding up to steady-state enjoyment.

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In order to accommodate short-term interest rates of just 0.25% in steady-state, leaving the monetary base unchanged at present levels, a 40% increase in the CPI would be required.

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On some level, that was odd because the quarter inherently represented a transition where production was ramping up and it would be hard to really get a sense of what the business looked like on a steady-state basis.

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The kinds of analysis that report massive, sustained, falling costs for renewable plants often assume that capital costs are recovered in steady-state fashion over the full, rated, life-cycle of the machinery, when in fact investors in these systems always strive to recover their costs much sooner to beat the diminishing returns that set in once two-thirds of the life-cycle is spent.

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When Ellis talked to him about working together in his business in the 1990s, Solomon had a steady job in a state-owned pharmaceutical company.

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For years, Americans have been subjected to a steady drumbeat of doom-and-gloom news about employment and the state of the economy.

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We wouldn't dare question the pace of innovation -- faster is always better -- but just as hardware appears to be reaching a steady state, it seems like owners should be able to hold on for phones longer, too.

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What they found is that while the number of state-owned firms has decreased overall, the number of truly important state-run companies, such as oil and telecom firms, has remained steady.

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