Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victims of the 1972 Christmas bombing. But there are few such deliberate reminders of the war, either in the landscape or in conversation. Posters celebrating the accuracy of rooftop antiaircraft gunners have been replaced by ones exhorting greater industrial and agricultural production. In the city's teeming central market (where dog meat is sold as a delicacy), a loudspeaker system installed ten years ago for air raid alerts and tirades against the "imperialist" enemy is now used to announce the arrival of produce from the countryside...
...program relies too much on federal direction, too little on the forces of the free market. Rule 1 in energy conservation is that while people may for a while obey presidential exhortations to set thermostats at 65°, they will not cut back on energy use in the long run unless waste is made prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 is that energy companies will not invest the huge sums needed in costly domestic exploration for oil and gas unless they are assured of a profitable return. The best way to follow both rules would be to enact a relatively speedy dismantling...
...appointments on the Medical School faculty. Officials expect that the present enrollment of 65,000 Boston area residents will increase to between 125,000 and 175,000 in the next five years. By 1982, HCHP should provide Med School faculty members with a sizeable corner of the Boston area market for high-level care. The projected enrollment figures represent five to seven per cent of the area's population...
...because they are simply outsized. In other sports like track, golf, swimming and tennis, the best women are not equal to their male counterparts. But whether they can attain equality is a judgment that need not be made--equal or not, women's sports will still have a market...
...idea that "an individual is always more complex than he appears," Goretta adapted a quaint newspaper clipping about a furniture maker who starts robbing banks, post offices, and train stations because he can't afford to pay his employees (devoted to wood, he's being beaten in the market by the manufacturers of plastics) into a film that is more complex than its unostentatious style would indicate. Beneath the country picnics, the tender-funny lovemaking, the man who robs a bank with a bandage on his nose and a single bullet in his gun, Goretta raises questions about the tenuous...