Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arbor), Republicans ousted Democratic Freshman Weston Vivian, an engineering Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, by the simple expedient of recruiting a Ph.D. of their own (in speech), State Representative Marvin L. Esch, 39. In the Upper Peninsula, Republican Businessman Philip E. Ruppe bounced a fourth L.B.J. coattail product, Raymond Clevenger, despite frenetic federal pork-barreling on the latter's behalf?including a post office for microscopic Christmas, Mich, (pop. 120), which now foresees a future as a yuletide mailing center...
...Prime Minister. In power, he improved relations with long-hated Britain, broke precedent by making a friendly call on Ulster's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, and launched the country on a vast and varied industrialization and trade-expansion program aimed at boosting the gross national product...
...artificial stimulation of the consumer to buy in vast quantities things he never wanted until he was told. Often such complaints sound highly plausible, particularly when reinforced by a wrecking ball hitting an old landmark or an infuriating commercial peddling a clearly needless "improvement" in some trivial product. Yet waste is not what it seems to be. The term implies a moral as well as an economic judgment, and its meaning varies with both setting and purpose...
Defense spending in 1966 was lower compared to the country's total product of goods and services than in four of the previous five years -- even including the Vietnam spending. But the question -- according to McNamara -- is "do we have the will power? And I don't think we do. We haven't demonstrated it to date and I'm afraid we're not going to demonstrate it in the future...
...becoming a cultural backwater. Our smug conviction that we are the art center of the country has only the weakest justification: we are only the center where the most buying and selling of art goes on, and we are not really much interested in art except as a sales product, whether the sales pitch is in dollars and cents or in the race to" be first with esthetic novelties...