Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they live in a world polarized by the existential isolation of Frantz's attic and the mundane world below. Frantz, to escape his war-time guilt, has tried to assume guilt for all. His rejection of ends-justifies-means ("evil was our only material... Good was the final product. Result: the good turned bad") is almost a Camus-esque rejection of political involvement. But when the father, below, says "it is easy to assume responsibility for everything when you do nothing," Sartre the Marxist repudiates this kind of pure existentialism...
since 1946 it has dropped from 134% of the gross national product to 46% , and from $1,900 per capita...
gout. True enough, say Biochemist George Brooks and Social Psychologist Ernst Mueller, but the one-word diagnosis is far from complete. Those four famous men, along with many others, suffered from swollen, painful joints be cause their blood carried an excess of uric acid, which is a product of hu man metabolism. And the presence of that excess acid may explain their other basic similarities -their energetic and adventurous minds, their urge to ex cel and the high caliber of their achievement...
...corporations but privately owned firms that are not now required to account for themselves at all. Among the many new figures that British firms would have to report, in addition to profits, are sales (37 of the 100 biggest companies have never done so), a breakdown of sales by product line and subsidiaries, the amount and value of shares outstanding and in reserve, and the earnings of company chairmen. The last requirement promises to end a favorite British guessing game...
...General Foods shift should be of greater concern to Foote, Cone-and to the advertising business-than the specific loss of billings. The reason Foote, Cone was fired, explains Arthur E. Larkin Jr., General Foods executive vice president, was "an unavoidable difference on basic policy in respect to product conflict." Translated, this meant that Foote, Cone had recently taken on Ralston Purina and Hills Bros, coffee, both fiercely competitive with General Foods products. Although auto companies, cigarette manufacturers and soapmakers have long forbidden their agencies to handle other products in the same field, food advertisers have been traditionally lenient...