Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is evidence that he might be looking in new directions. He sometimes sounds as if he thought the sexual revolution were over, thanks to Playboy, and that it is now time to move on to other social and economic challenges. Even the country's gross national product seems to interest him. "A publication," he wrote, "that helps motivate a part of society to work harder, to accomplish more, to earn more in order to enjoy more of the material benefits described?to that extent, the publication is contributing to the economic growth of the nation...
...human being that is just a heart and toenails?" he asks. So he put together a magazine that was largely bosom and thigh and not especially distinguishable from other girlie slicks. But he added more substantial content as he went along; today's Playboy is a well-stuffed product, bulging with intellectual ambitions and self-confidence. It even includes some tips from John Paul Getty on how to succeed in business. The humor, however, remains on a fairly primitive level. A typical cartoon shows a playboy in bed with a bunnyesque girl, asking: "Why talk about love at a time...
Uncertainty & Replenishment. One reason for such drop-offs is resentment about the rising cost of goods and services. Although the gross national product climbed last quarter by $14 billion, a third of the rise merely represented higher prices. Consumers spent an additional $5 billion on services in the last quarter, but two-thirds of that increase was the result of higher costs for the services performed. Other reasons for the drop in sales are uncertainty over Viet Nam, credit restrictions caused by last fall's tight-money crisis and, as far as autos are concerned, customer worries about safety...
...their labels The defendants, Pedro Domecq, Gonzalez Byass (Tio Pepe) and two other Spanish sherrymakers, argue that true sherry comes only from the vineyards around the Spanish town of Jerez. Since "sherry" is merely a corruption of "Jerez," they say, it ought to be reserved for the Jerez product, just as British courts have reserved the name "champagne" for France's Champagne district...
...FRANCE. The gross national product grew by a robust 5.5% last year, and is expected to do as well in 1967. But a few clouds are gathering. Though exports rose fast (10%) last year, imports increased even faster (15%). And with markets weakened in other European countries, France stands to see its balance-of-payments surplus turn into a deficit before 1967 is out. Continued prosperity depends on France's ability to hold the line on prices...