Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to be, before it fell on evil times. These days, an Agriculture Department hearing was told last week, franks average as much as 32.% fat, 11% more than the franks of the '50s. Some go as high as 51%-leading to the question of whether the product should be called a fatfurter...
What sets her apart from competing fast-buck writers is her extraordinary show-business savvy and an almost unlimited fondness for self-promotion. When it comes to flogging the product personally, the others are plodding dilettantes by comparison...
...will continue upward. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that prices received by farmers rose 4% during the month ending May 15, and were 8% higher than a year ago. The meat index rose 9% during the month. Prices received by farmers for vegetables jumped 25%, while the dairy product index exceeded that of the corresponding month a year earlier for the 18th consecutive time. Just about everything was higher than last year: pork, chicken, eggs, milk...
Despite such simplistic assumptions, Jane Jacobs succeeds as usual. Shining through every page of her book is a boundless and infectious conviction that the city is the best and noblest product of man. In one remarkable chapter she even goes so far as to reverse the traditional assumption that the first cities grew out of agricultural communities. Not at all. Citing archaeological evidence, Jane Jacobs argues that the first cities were founded on trade and actually helped create organized agriculture and animal husbandry. In an age when most Americans have been persuaded that great cities are creeping problem areas...
...literature and electronics, the Japanese urge to modernize has had much the same effect. Japanese novelists often study Western models as faithfully and earnestly as their engineering brothers ingest technical manuals. The result is that too often the final product resembles nothing so much as a dubbed-in Oriental film. Occasionally, though, a novelist, borne along on his own exquisite and honorable psychological insight, transforms a Western genre into a vehicle for approaching a universal truth...