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- noun The Young Men's Christian Association, The Young Women's Christian Association, or one of their facilities. Used with the.
- noun The Young Men's Hebrew Association, The Young Women's Hebrew Association, or one of their facilities. Used with the.
- abbreviation year
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- noun The twenty-fifth letter of the
basic modern Latin alphabet . - noun chemistry Symbol for
yttrium - noun metrology Symbol for prefix
yotta- - noun genetics
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for anypyrimidine - noun biochemistry
IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation fortyrosine - noun travel, aviation Symbol for an unrestricted economy air fare.
- abbreviation
yes - abbreviation
YMCA orYWCA - noun The twenty-fifth
letter of the Englishalphabet , calledwye and written in theLatin script .
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I just did that up at the Y-- the 92nd Street Y with Regis as the host.
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That portion of the mouth of the latter that was to remain open was fastened in the same way to two other plates, X Y, X¹ Y¹ (Fig. 1), held between the lower cross-braces.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various
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There's no need to blacard the streets with it, or to tell the British public that Fitzroy Y-ll-wpl-sh is short of money, or that the sallybrated hauthor of the Y--- Papers is in peskewniary difficklties, or is fiteagued by his superhuman littery labors, or by his famly suckmstansies, or by any other pusnal matter: my maxim, dear B, is on these pints to be as quiet as posbile.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Choose Y - or Y+ if you want the applied in the texture to wrap around from top to bottom.
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Suppose a fiscal authority is using F to try to keep Y at some target level Y* (you can think of Y* as full employment, or the natural rate, or just Y*, as long as Y* is independent of F and M).
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And for all the thought experiments saying "if you put $1 in a bank account paying 1\% interest in the year X, it would be worth $Y today", the fact is that in most cases Y is zero - your money would have been taken from you, in one way or another, by now.
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X showers Y with the kind of attention that most impresses Y-- charm, intensity, subtlety, elusiveness, whatever -- until Y becomes the
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So the fiscal authority sets F, conditional on M and all other information (I), so that its expectation of future Y is equal to Y*.
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