Word: lifeblood
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...products are the lifeblood of U.S. business, but many a company in 1963 uses up a lot of its own lifeblood in the race to bring them out. Once, U.S. corporations had only to develop a few new products every year or so, confident that they would dominate the market long enough to show a healthy profit. No longer. Today's new products not only take more time, effort and money to develop, but face a far shorter life at the hands of the fickle consumer. There are plenty of companies to woo him; so many firms now have...
...Volpe has the opposition on the run." Rockfeller declared, "give him the tools and he'll finish the job." Rockfeller stressed his belief, expressed last February at Harvard's Godkin lectures, that "politics is the lifeblood of democracy...
...watched as the plane began to move; when he saw Jackie wave from the window, he broke into a grin. As for himself, he was about to take off for Florida and a weekend rest-and also for a bit of politicking, which to him is both recreation and lifeblood, and one of the reasons he is able to stay on top of his job and feel jaunty...
...population-fled to the West in the eleven years that followed. In the first eleven days of August 1961 alone, 16,500 sought haven in West Berlin; the refugees included an East German Supreme Court judge, East German policemen, soldiers, physicians, lawyers, engineers, farmers, workers, merchants-the lifeblood of any country...
...good times, such basic commodities are the lifeblood of the economy, producing plenty of cash. But lately world surpluses have depressed demand, and prices have tumbled with unhappy results. Although the bank did not specify them, there are abundant examples to prove its point. The 11?-per-lb. drop in coffee prices in 1957 cost Colombia $25 million-more than its annual education budget. In 1958, when Russia dumped tin, Bolivia's quota was cut 31% by the International Tin Council; Bolivia lost $20 million, almost canceling...