The term inelastic simply refers to a good whose demand is relatively unresponsive to a change in price.
She still has a profile on the site, and you can see that she still logs in regularly, but she's as unresponsive as a bleary-eyed Best Buy employee lollygagging amidst the Blu-Rays.
Her mother remained "unconscious and unresponsive" for a time but slowly began to respond to police while they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
That is a result of increasing polarisation between the two big parties, which has led to blocked and unresponsive legislatures and so bred a yearning to circumvent them.
Brown, 25, was unresponsive and transferred to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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The electric power steering is a little unresponsive on center usually, but gets more reactive and tactile the harder you drive the car.
And so there was a danger for Barack Obama of looking unresponsive, of staying too much on the sidelines, at a time when the public was demanding a more activist approach.
Kevin Grubb said Ivins was found unresponsive on the floor of a bathroom.
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Given how notoriously unresponsive Facebook is to emails, a 48-hour notice period is going to be a hard time-line to stick to.
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Thomas Orchard, 32, was arrested in Exeter in October, but died in hospital after being found "unresponsive" with head injuries in a custody cell.
Peta: Vegas has been unbelievably unresponsive to the idea that this could be a growth business for them.
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Post script to this article: the missing crew person, a woman, was recovered in an unresponsive condition near the scene and later pronounced dead.
This fact has played a large part in making the economy unresponsive to the trillions of dollars worth of quantitative easing that the Fed has done since late 2008.
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While the device has a touchscreen, we found it to be unresponsive.
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After getting feedback at a company Outward Bound retreat about being too dictatorial and unresponsive to work conditions, Green let his staff rearrange the machines, add lighting, choose music and settle problems as they arose.
When a 9-1-1 call is received reporting someone unconscious, unresponsive and likely needing CPR, the local communications center will dispatch public safety resources as they do today, but software running in the center will also send this alert to nearby citizen rescuers.
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