According to Webster�s New World Dictionary, synergy is the positive result that occurs when �the simultaneous action of separate agencies have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.� Management professor Stephen Robbins relates positive and negative synergy to business in the following way...

As defined by sweatshopwatch.org, a sweatshop is a �workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including the absence of a living wage or benefits, poor working conditions, and arbitrary discipline.� The difficulty in defining sweatshop is the word extreme.

Sustainable growth and development, sometimes referred to as sustainability, was defined by the Brundtland Commission (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) as ECONOMIC GROWTH that �meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.�

Supply-side economics centers on the idea that lower marginal tax rates increase peoples� incentives to work. First articulated by economist Arthur Laffer in 1974, supplyside economics increases labor productivity by allowing workers to keep more of their added INCOME. This, in turn, increases taxable output and income, resulting in greater revenue for government.

The supply rule is a two-part set of theoretical guidelines for businesses in determining whether to produce and how much to produce. According to the supply rule, in the long run (when all RESOURCES are variable and subject to change), a firm should only produce quantity where marginal revenue (MR) is equal to or greater than marginal cost (MC).

See PURCHASING.

Supply, or the law of supply, is the relationship between price and the quantity supplied of a good or service in a market. The law of supply states there is a positive relationship between price and quantity supplied; that is, the higher the price the greater the quantity supplied, and the lower the price the lower the quantity supplied, ceteris paribus (all other things being equal, or nothing else has changed).

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a federally financed and administered program created in 1974. SSI is managed by the Social Security Administration but funded through general tax revenues. Designed to assist needy Americans, SSI provides monthly cash payments to Americans with limited INCOME and resources who are age 65 and older, blind, or disabled.

As quoted on the Environmental Protection Agency�s website The Superfund, created by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, is a TRUST fund used to clean up �abandoned, accidentally spilled, or illegally dumped hazardous waste that poses a current or future threat to human health or the environment.�

See JUST CAUSE.