Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When man prepares such things as foods and drugs, he can keep track of the materials he uses, and thus he will know what the finished product will be made of. But when man tries to take apart some of the enormously complex mixtures of organic chemicals that have been made by nature-most notably, the hundreds of enzymes and other proteins in his own blood, the scores of hormones secreted by his glands, or the dozen antibiotics that may be made in a single fermentation brew-he scarcely knows where to begin. For nature's chemicals may look...
...McKay spotted Pete Beathard as a junior at El Segundo High School, hardly let him out of his sight for two years. Northwestern's Myers got VIP tours of all but three Big Ten campuses, plus Miami and the University of Florida. Midshipman Roger Staubach is a prize product of perhaps the most extensive recruiting service in college football. "We don't dodge it," says Rip Miller, Navy's assistant athletic director. "We recruit like...
When it gets down to the job each man faces, the similarities end. Besides trying to beef up Pepsi's distribution and marketing system (520 U.S. outlets v. 1,100 for Coke), Kendall needs to broaden his one-product company, is searching around for likely food-line mergers. Austin, on the other hand, can look out from his executive suite in Atlanta on a far-flung organization that has already taken that step; in addition to Coke, he has a promising line of frozen and canned juices, coffee and tea that accounts for 20% of Coke's sales...
...will therefore stand the hikes. This is all the more remarkable because the current business expansion is now 32 months old and should, by all the textbooks, be growing weary. Though previous postwar recoveries have petered out after an average of 36 months, Washington expects that the gross national product will rise $10 billion or so in this year's fourth quarter, to a record $595 billion; the Bank of America forecasts a $611 billion figure by next June...
...maverick and always have been," says Jose Figueres of himself. "I am the product of a personal revolution against the Catholicism of my family...