Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska's continental shelf. Though Japanese fleets had been catching and canning the huge crabs for years, Wakefield determined to try freezing the meat, on the theory that "when you are so far from the market that your costs are relatively high, your only hope is a product of the highest quality...
...Dairymen customarily measure their product by weight rather than volume: one gallon equals...
...billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain silos and railroad cars. The gross national product has doubled in a decade to $6.5 billion a year...
...drawn his share of blood. Almost singlehanded, he forced the Catholic Church to revise ultraconventional plans for a new cathedral; he caused the city to change its plans for a bridge spanning south San Francisco Bay. "What a graceful, avant-garde bridge," he says of the finished product, "and they were going to have us driving in a cage over the most beautiful bay in the world." He once complained: "Although I am not especially eager for my daughter to marry one, some of my best friends are engineers." Says Chronicle City Editor Abe Mellinkoff: "Temko's stuff...
That was partly it. His office and his time were never wholly his; he was always giving them to others. For one thing, he loved Boston, and rarely lost patience with any product of it, whether Irish politician or Negro activist. When they were contemptuous or angry, he took that in his stride. He was Harvard to many in Boston -- and he became Harvard to many in Hartford and Pittsburgh - and, because of that, he helped make real other educators' hopes of involvement in city schools...