Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other actions, the Congress: - Passed, in the Senate, and sent to the President a bill raising the minimum wage for some 30 million workers to $1.40 an hour next February and to $1.60 a year later. Product of long wrangling between Government and organized labor, the bill also extends coverage to some 8,000,000 more employees, notably migratory farm workers. >Slashed, in the House Appropriations Committee, $295 million from the $3.38 billion foreign aid bill requested by the President. In the bill reported out of committee, $200 million was cut from economic aid requests and $95 million from military...
...Reform. The regime has even accomplished some things. Panic buying of gold, which threatened the drachma, was stemmed by the central bank early in the year. Since then, the economy has expanded nicely. Gross national product will be up 8% for 1966, industrial production is up 15% , and after nearly two years of inflation brought on by Papandreou's free-spending policies, prices have stabilized. Governing with a precarious majority of 152 Deputies (out of a 300-man Parliament), in which the balance of power is held by 40-odd Deputies weaned away from Papandreou's once-dominant...
...tamps aphorism, anecdote and erudition into stinging whiffs of grapeshot that splay across the whole range of contemporary thought and life. Wertham's thesis is that no murder, no rape, no senseless act of destruction is ever an iso lated, spontaneous event even when it is the product of a clearly psychotic mind. Always it "is linked by a thousand threads to the present fabric of our social and institutional life...
...report met with widespread and surprisingly uncritical acceptance. But elsewhere, particularly in Europe, many people never doubted that Kennedy's murder was the product of a conspiracy involving either-there is a remarkably wide choice-the right wing, the left wing, the FBI, the CIA or the Dallas police force. When South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated last week in Capetown, officials hurriedly launched a series of anti-plot explanations to cut off the kind of who-killed-Kennedy rumors that have risen abroad...
...among them a "Tiny Telemann Festival," honoring the baroque composer, and four programs of Viennese music, to be played by Viennese pianists. Now their expanding interests are rapidly encompassing the dance, drama, films and children's programs. Whatever it is, Hoffman insists, "if you have a good-quality product, you can find an audience...