Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then told his fellow Governors how close the West is coming to having nothing at all. He noted that 200 key Western reservoirs stood at 53% capacity in October of 1957; the estimate for this October is 20%. The Governors concluded that this year's shortage is the product of meager spring rains, low humidity and high winds that literally sucked the moisture out of fields and for ests. But the crisis has been building a long while. For 30 years the Colorado River's water level has been trending downward because of recurring droughts. Southern California...
...knew right from wrong. Modern psychiatry's major try at an improvement is the Durham Rule,* under which the accused is spared trial and possible punishment if, at the time of the crime, he was suffering from a "mental disease or mental defect," and the crime was the "product" of that condition...
This was the verdict passed last week by Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon. Both Dillon and Presidential Economic Adviser Walter W. Heller predicted that the gross national product, which stood just below $500 billion in the first quarter, would hit between $520 and $530 billion by year's end-a prediction very close to that made in the generally gloomy atmosphere of five months ago by FORTUNE...
...argument lacks proportion rather than truth. It is 'indeed true that most 'Outer Seven' countries would follow Britain and that an all-European economic union would hurt certain U.S. exports, particularly in the agricultural sector. But since the United States exports relatively little of its national product, an integrated European market could do nothing more than occasion the! readjustment of a minute portion of the American economy...
...University's Center for International Affairs, attempts to explicitly define the term "arms control." Superbly concise, it presents both the prospects and problems in a cool, logical style understandable to any reader. It avoids both the massiveness and the technically of last fall's issue of Daedalus, also a product of the summer study...