Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should an industry be at liberty to promote a product that 70 million U.S. smokers want, even if it endangers life? What is the responsibility of the cigarette makers to the public? And what restrictive actions, if any, should the Government take against them? These questions are crucial in the growing controversy over cigarette smoking and selling...
NATO's unhappiest hour was in 1966, when Charles de Gaulle summarily withdrew his country from military participation in the alliance and evicted NATO from installations in France, including military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau. To a degree, De Gaulle's decision was perhaps an unavoidable product of his own intense nationalistic pride. But his action also reflected the larger problem that NATO has historically been overly dependent upon...
Such courage ought to be the ultimate product of last week's ugly confrontation at Harvard. The lesson is that force, at best, offers only temporary solutions. What the American university needs above all is a new integrity?moral authority, the unsolicited respect of the young and the old alike. Only thus can the university be immune to extremism and able to follow its calling of truth and reason?the role that Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University defined as providing an "environment for the continuous polishing of one mind by another...
...shops stretches for ten miles along Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. It could be called Franchise Row. Though hardly a landscape to captivate the eye, the phenomenon is increasingly common to cities and suburbs. Franchising-an arrangement by which local entrepreneurs lease their firm name, product and operating methods from large chains-has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of U.S. business. Through franchising, thousands of independent small businessmen have acquired improved techniques, new economic power and a greatly enhanced chance for survival...
...vociferously and increasingly critical of the union's cooperation with the coal industry. Their partnership has made U.S. coal miners by far the best-paid in the world (average: $7,000 a year) and created an industry so highly mechanized that American coal is cheaper than the domestic product in most of Europe -even in Newcastle. Yet cooperation can go too far. In 1968, the union was found to be conspiring with the Consolidation Coal Co. to create a monopoly in the soft-coal industry and was ordered to pay half of the $7,300,000 damages awarded...