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From: 3ksnn64@pur-ee.UUCP (Joe Cychosz)
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Subject: Re: Cray Quotations
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Date: 9 Jan 89 02:06:42 GMT
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In article <616@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:

>Ahem. For all you city boys out there, parity refers to the relationship
>in price between a bushel of wheat and a barrel of oil, fixed at
>some point in the late sixties/early seventies.
Actually the fix point is the price relationships of farm goods verse
the cost of goods used for farming (for example oil as you have said)
in the year 1914.