Find the sentences with the Absolute Participial Construction and translate them.

a) 1. An increase in price of one percent resulting in an increase in supply of more than one percent, the supply is called elastic.

2. Ceiling (максимально высокие) prices being controlled by the government, goods may find their way to the black market.

3. In the next 25 years or so, the average age in the United States increasing, problems of the aged rather than young people will be of importance.

4. With a financial panic everyone wanting his money at the same time, the bank is unable to pay.

5. Cheques being accepted in payment of purchases, people feel that a bank account is as good as or even better than money in their pocket.

b) 1.The two principal economic systems were considered to be capitalism and socialism, mixed economies lying in between those.

2. Natural resources are one of the three factors of production, the other two being labour and capital.

3. Auctions make buyers bid up against (набавлять цену) each other, with the seller taking a passive role.

4. The world distribution of income is unjust, with poor countries having 61 percent of the world’s population, but receiving only 6 percent of the world income.