Word: product
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...next August's meeting, the cuts may go deeper. Already two more nations-Ecuador and Colombia-have asked to join, and by August, the Latin American common market should include 86% of Latin America's territory, 81% of its population, more than 70% of its gross product, and 60% of its total trade...
From Thorns to Roses. Canada's doubts about what lies ahead are all the sharper for the good times of the moment. Having just weathered a considerable recession, Canada is enjoying a substantial comeback. Going into the new year, gross national product is clipping along at a record $36.8 billion annual rate, and unemployment, which hit an icy 11.3% last winter, has thawed to a more livable 5.4%. Steel, autos, housing, oil and gas production are all strong. Most spectacular of all in the upturn is foreign trade-the very issue that stirs all the debate...
Unhappily, an old star's new glow may also burn out as soon as he gets tenure. A common product of hasty hiring, the "deadwood" scholar is a total loss and a horselaugh on the great game of faculty raiding. This is why Harvard, still relatively unscathed in the hiring battle, takes one full year for an Olympian look at a professor before employing...
...moment we all become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...Hearst is likely to run into more trouble. Although its afternoon paper has been pointedly renamed the Herald-Examiner, this cannot conceal the fact that William Randolph Hearst's cost-conscious successors have expediently submerged their superior Los Angeles possession, the Examiner, into their inferior product. Moreover, as an afternoon paper the Herald-Examiner is in direct competition with the suburban dailies, most of which are published in the afternoon. And it faces grave distribution problems that a morning paper, whose trucks roll in the quiet hours before dawn, avoids easily: to escape the ever increasing rush-hour freeway...