Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goulart's three-year economic program was drafted by Celso Furtado. 42, the economist responsible for creating an admirable development plan for the blighted, Communist-target states of the northeastern Atlantic bulge. Furtado projects a 7% annual rise in Brazil's gross national product. If all goes well, manufacturing is to grow by 11.2% annually, transport facilities by 8.8%, agricultural production by 5.7%. The program will require a $4 billion investment between now and 1965, of which private industry is expected to put up two-thirds, the government one-third...
...leaves any errors to be corrected by a proofreader. Generally the machine hums along for long periods without being stumped, justifying 3 lines per sec. At this rate, it handles an 8-column newspaper page of solid print in 7½ min. The computer's product is a justified tape that can be fed to typesetting machines. Without further human intervention, it turns the reporter's story into lines of type...
...Gross national product grew 9% to $39 billion for the year-a brighter performance than that of the U.S.. Britain or the miracle nations of Europe...
Articulating admirably, Marlon Brando, 38, let a Tokyo reporter for Variety in on the difficulties of marketing a Great Actor. "An actor is a product like Florsheim shoes or Ford cars," said Brando. "He's a useful product that is resold many times for social purposes; and he's exploited the way any other piece of merchandise is." All terribly crass, but something else bugged Brando even more: "As soon as you become an actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astrology, archaeology and birth control. And what's even funnier, you start giving opinions...
Amory Bradford traveled a vastly different course to his collision with the union leader. A product of the Ivy League -Phillips Academy, Yale '34-Bradford practiced corporation law in Manhattan for nine years before joining the Times as assistant to the publisher in 1947. There he rose steadily through the executive ranks. His position on the Times, plus his law background, made him the Publishers Association's logical choice to confront the printers' truculence...