Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulgarian Party Congress last week, Zhivkov proudly detailed "an all-round upsurge" in the nation's economy - the product of a quiet three-year-old reform experiment that has placed 60% of Bulgaria's industry on a profit-incentive basis...
...shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending Mayor McKeldin...
...Robert Brustein, who until last year was theater critic for the New Republic, hold that the campus theater must be a hub of experimentation and creativity, which, as Brustein sees it, have been forsaken by Broadway in its pursuit of commercial success. So far, Brustein's most visible product is a protest play called Viet Rock, which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting. But Yale's Associate Drama Dean Gordon Rogoff finds value in critical flops. The university theater's function, he says...
...were the richest power in Europe-and constantly tries to use its economic leverage to win its own way in international affairs. Its industrial output jumped by more than 7% in the year that ended last June, and both this year and next year its gross national product is expected to increase 5.5%, highest real growth rate in the Common Market. Yet under the surface glitter, France has a backward, underdeveloped economy-a fact that the De Gaulle government has recently owned up to and started to do something about...
Rothberg's anti-hero is Jacob Nissim, a veritable Aryan in appearance-blond, crew cut, blue eyes, short straight nose-but in experience perhaps too pat a symbol of Jewish suffering and persecution. A product of the Warsaw ghetto, Nissim escapes at 13 from the cattle car that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth...