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Jeremy Wormell, The Management of the National Debt of the United Kingdom, 1900-1932 (London Routledge, 2000), pp. 622, 685. 

A 1 million reward is given to whomever reaches the top of the ladder first. In addition, the country that reaches the top first has its national debt wiped out. 

Ken Arromdee from Johns Hopkins University suggested that the country that gets to the top fastest would be the one closest to the Earth s equator, where the centrifugal force is the greatest. Others noted that countries with a large national debt have extra motivation. 

Although the English Parliament had banned alchemy, the Parliament itself sought to gain from it and established Parliamentary Commissions in 1456 and 1457 to ascertain whether alchemy could be a feasible method of pa dng off national debts. Shortly afterwards, Richard Carter was issued a license for alchemy in 1476. He experimented with all kinds of metals and minerals. As late as 1680, Sir Isaac Newton was quietly experimenting with alchemy, whilst administering the Royal Mint. 

The authors would like to give special thanks to the Swedish National Debt Office for their assistance with this section. Of course, any views expressed and any errors and omissions are those of the authors. 

The US quarter has a mass of 5.67 g and is approximately 1.55 mm thick, (a) How many quarters would have to be stacked to reach 575 ft, the height of the Washington Monument (b) How much would this stack weigh (c) How much money would this stack contain (d) The US National Debt Clock showed the outstanding public debt to be 11,687,233,914,811.11 on August 19, 2009. How many stacks like the one described would be necessary to pay off this debt ... 

Low back pain causes more productivity loss than any other medical condition. In the United States alone, it caused 24 million people in 1990 to seek medical care, with health care costs of more than 33 billion dollars per year" and growing. When disability and lost productivity are included, the estimated cost exceeds 100 billion dollars per year. This is the order of magnitude of currently lamented annual increases in the U.S. national debt. As described in section 9.4.4 below, there are two different approaches underway using protein-based materials in animal models to evaluate efficacy for alleviating this most burdensome health care problem. 

A nation s economy may be adversely affected through diversion of resources to mUitary activities from education, housing, nutrition and other human and health services and through an increase in national debt and/or taxation. These economic impacts affect both developed and developing countries. 

With respect to the sale of our lands, that cannot begin till a considerable portion shall have been surveyed. They cannot begin to survey till the fall of the leaf of this year, nor to sell probably till the ensuing spring. So that it will be yet a twelve-month before we shall be able to judge of the efficacy of our land office to sink our national debt. It is made a fundamental, that the proceeds shall be solely and sacredly applied as a sinking fund to discharge the capital only of the debt. 

If Avogadro s number of pennies is divided equally among the 250 million men, women, and children in the United States, how many dollars would each receive How does this compare with the national debt of the United States, which was 5.5 trillion at the time of the writing of this text ... 

The total U.S national debt in 2010 was approximately 12,102,000,000,000. Express this number in scientific notation. 

The broad field of economics may be divided into macro and micro economics. Macroeconomics involves problems associated with nations sueh as trade, trade deficits, monetary policy, national productivity, growth of the economy, inflation, budget defieits, national debt, unemployment, tariffs, etc. Microeconomics involves problems of firms and of individuals. Engineering economics is a special branch of microeconomics largely involved with the analysis of engineering alternatives and their performance. 

A curiosity of the site mentioned earlier, publicdebt.gov, is their "The Debt to the Penny." Just click on http //www.public debt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm, and you can access the total national debt—including debt held by the public as well as that of intragovernmental holdings. As of this writing it stands at just over 57 trillion. Other factoids are available at http //www. publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opd.htm. 

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