Word: product
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...Minneapolis a fortnight ago. delegates to the annual convention of the Lutheran Free Church (membership: 90,000, largely Norwegian-Americans) voted 530 to 112 for merger with the big (2,365,000) American Lutheran Church-itself the product of an earlier alliance of three smaller churches. Dr. John Stensvaag, the Free Church's president, says that it can no longer afford the luxury of remaining a splinter group if it is "to go forward worthily in a manner good for the Kingdom." The American Lutheran Church will vote on the Free Church's application for membership...
...effort to land men on the moon, some of his technical advisers were favoring a third: LOR (lunar orbital rendezvous). Though LOR at first glance seems like a bizarre product of far-out science fiction, many scientists are already convinced that it will prove easier, quicker and perhaps cheaper than any other system for making lunar landings...
...novel adversary. A witness for the prosecution will be an atomic scientist, armed with "radiation fingerprints," evidence that can be as accurate and reliable as a photograph of the actual crime. No ordinary cop could hope to gather such fingerprints, or even to decipher them. They are the product of neutron activation analysis, which requires that specimens under study be irradiated with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. Then the fine details of their chemical composition can be deduced from the pattern of the radiation they give...
Shaken by these jeremiads, Premier Hayato Ikeda's government slapped on credit curbs designed to discourage industrial expansion. Last week, however, the government reported that, despite all its efforts, Japan's gross national product in 1961 increased by 21.5%-6½ times the U.S. rate. Meanwhile, under the stimulus of a government-backed export drive, overseas sales had picked up enough to give Japan a favorable trade balance of $92 million for the first quarter of this year. Sighed Government Economic Planner Masao Sakizaka: "It seems the only people who realize that there's a serious recession...
...Sadoveanu's work is not so much the product of a different political system as of a different century. His real contemporaries are not Ehrenburg and Pasternak but Tolstoy and Turgenev, al though he has nothing like the power or skill of any of them. His customary setting is the Rumania of three generations past, a Ruritanian rural province of marshes and forests and rivers aswarm with ducks to be shot, trout to be caught, and canny peasants to be put upon by the local landowners (known as boyars...