Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their case by noting that while 1967 began slowly, the pace quickened so much that interest rates, retail and wholesale prices and other indices were in danger of spiraling out of control by year's end. The momentum is carrying over into 1968, with heavy auto and steel production pacing an expected surge of $20 billion in the gross national product during the first quarter-an alltime record...
...about a stock's price-earnings ratio-that is, its price relative to earnings per share expected in the current year. Professionals tend to assign rather low P-E ratios to companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster than the U.S. economy...
...clearly for buyers who until now have fallen for luxury hot-rods like Cadillac's front-wheel-drive Eldorado. To win them to Continental-or at least lure them into a Lincoln-Mercury showroom-Ford's engineers and stylists have aimed at "elegant perfection." Says Marketing and Product Planning Manager Ralph L. Peters: "We're going all the way with this...
...outside the framework of favorite myths. But if Americans are not the impulsive, brash upstarts that they themselves and a good deal of the world have taken them to be, just who are they? A notably patient people, Heren believes, infinitely capable of compromise, whose society is less the product of revolutionary fiat than of constant evolutionary adjustments over the years...
...Peace Corps indistinguishable from the U.S. Government? Can the U.S. honestly be working for peace in some countries while dropping napalm on another country? If peace is the product of understanding, respect, and economic development, the need to work for peace is real in several score of countries whether or not there is peace in Vietnam. The imperative may indeed be greater as there is so much misunderstood and remaining to be said about Vietnam...