The price ceiling was well below the laissez faire price that demand would have supported, so there were always shortages.

Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.

They ought to be lethal-chambered, nasty little sewer-rats, one of 'em's saved them the trouble at any rate.

Under the autopay rent collection system, most of the transactions are effected on the first working day of the month.