Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointing, in 1969, to again confront "Asian experts" proclaiming that the United States has simply become entangled in a morass, quagmire, or swamp. Furthermore, these scholars are not only constitutionally incapable of trying to understand the NLF and its goals, but they casually dismiss the Third World and its billion people with equal insensitivity. We can now understand how such naivete twenty years ago resulted in the mythical "loss of China...
...growth in the market value itself, however, was the slowest in recent years. The market value increased by $113.8 during fiscal 1968, but only $6.2 billion (to $1158 million) in fiscal...
Drake said he is convinced that pulsars, some of which pulsate more than 50 times a second, are rotating neutron stars. Scientists have predicted the existence of neutron stars-a teaspoonful of which weighs more than a billion tons-as the remnants of the explosions of giant stars. But until the accidental discovery of pulsars in 1967, no neutron stars had been observed...
...ordered by HEW Secretary Robert Finch last week, might hit millions of weight-watchers in the waistline, but it is a real body blow to the rich diet-food industry. In the 20 years since cyclamates were discovered, sales of products containing the nonnutritive sweeteners have risen to $1 billion annually. An estimated 21 million pounds of cyclamates will be consumed this year. The biggest manufacturer, Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, figures that cyclamates account for 4% of its sales, which were $351 million last year...
...increasingly fickle consumer. Last year more than 9,500 new items were introduced in the consumer package-goods field alone, the area of greatest product turnover. Less than 20% met their sales goals; the cost of new-product failure to U.S. business is estimated to be well over $2 billion annually. Some highly promoted disappointments in recent years: Gablinger's Beer, Hunt's Flavored Catsups, Fact Toothpaste, Noxzema Medicated Cold Cream and Easy-Off Household Cleaner...