Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus organization now known as the Association of African and Afro - American Students (AAAS) is a product of the uniquely stimulating years from 1960 to 1963. The student demonstrations in the South, African independence, and the Black Muslims -- especially Malcolm X -- captured the imagination of Negroes in intellectual communities throughout the country...
...farewell concert by a tour group has, or should have, a special quality of excited anticipation. To use a blasphemous example, the appearance of Asian Tour 1967 was a little like the unveiling of the 1967 Cars. But unlike an unveiling, what was revealed was not a finished product but a point of departure, deserving not so much praise for its perfections as good wishes for its future attainments. Last night's concert showed, in short, that the Asian Tour group of the Glee Club and Choral Society, for all its spirits and precision, has important deficiencies to overcome...
...evils of centralization. Pointing to big business, they contend that any organization large enough to educate massive urban populations will be bureaucratized and centrally controlled. Still, more and more experts are pointing out that education is unique. "Big education," says Sizer, "is not comparable to big businesses as the product of schools is not--or should not be--a mass product ... The first and toughest management problem is the protection and nurturing ... of human individuality, and this is difficult to do--impossible to do--from the top in large school systems...
...more things change at Compagnie des Machines Bull, France's largest home-grown computer manufacturer, the more they remain the same. Machines Bull, named for the Norwegian whose punch-card system was the company's first product was deep in debt and floundering in mismanagement when, in 1964, General Electric bought half of the firm for $43 million. Charles de Gaulle had hoped for a "French solution" to Bull's problems, but when none could be found he reluctantly permitted G.E. to buy in. Since then, Machines Bull has continued to lose money. It suffered...
...fourth time, the grizzled old Texan from the Big Thicket was hauled up before the court for making moonshine. Since the judge knew that the old man made whisky only for his own use, he spoke gently. "George, the commercial distillers put out a real good product these days, and they sell it at a reasonable price. I know you don't have much money, but it would be far better for you simply to buy a bottle every now and then than to keep on making this stuff and keep on getting caught...