Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed." The effect: to "approximately double" the cost of advertising in U.S.-produced magazines aimed at the Canadian market. The Commission urged that the customs laws should also be rewritten to prohibit importing any magazine unless it contained "no advertising which on its face indicates the availability of a product or service in Canada...
...photographers was at work recording, in words and pictures, the first 100 days of his new Administration. The contributors include men and women of such established reputation as Princeton's History Professor Eric F. (Rendezvous with Destiny) Goldman and the London Economist's Barbara Ward, but their product is a weird paste-up. Many of the critical hours and major problems of the 100 days are glossed over or overlooked. Laos is dismissed with four pictures. The Cuban invasion (which occurred on the 87th day of the new Administration) is reduced to a frantic, one-page epilogue...
Some blame the 1957 game, which stimulated the recruiting activities of banner-waving alumni all over the country, for the deluge that swelled to monstrous proportions in the ensuing years. Others cite the wartime birth rate, changing social values, increased gross national product, the enlarged importance of education, the atomic bomb, and the weather. What-ever the cause--and most likely it is a combination of all the above--the Admissions Office views each coming spring with dread, and finds itself in a situation where it is damned whether it does or it doesn...
...many U.S. companies do not accept the fact that if a missile is to work 75% of the time, the components made by each subcontractor must function perfectly 99% of the time. Building this kind of reliability into a product drives costs up: quality-conscious Minneapolis-Honeywell figures that its control systems add 20% to the cost of the items it makes for inertial-guidance systems. Worse yet in the eyes of manufacturers rushing to meet over-optimistic production schedules, uncompromising quality control is a time-consuming process...
...Last week Little surrendered another job: the presidency of Textron Electronics, 76% owned by the parent company. In as Little's replacement and chief executive officer went tweedy, relaxed Robert Gustav Tabors, 46 a former Textron vice president. Tabors' prime goal at Textron Electronics: to diversify its product line within the electronics field...