Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Habit. As in the days of Goldwyn and Mayer, the studio goal is to make money-but the customers are now willing to pay for a different product. "The main change has been in audience," argues Robert Evans, head of production at Paramount. "Today, people go to see a movie; they no longer go to the movies. We can't depend on habit any more. We have to make 'I've got to see that pictures...
...Numbers. According to CBS Research Director Jay Eliasberg, the network feels that "intelligent advertisers are not interested in demographics perse but in the audience's response to their product," since most TV advertising is of mass-consumption items. Besides, adds Eliasberg, CBS's huge prime-time audience contains top numbers in all categories-more young people, more old people, more women, more men, more teenagers, more children...
...work of three excellent artists is brought together at the top of the Carpenter ramp; we see a very good designer mediating between two great ones. Exhibition designer Toshiro Katayama ties together the chairs of Michael Thonet with the hall of Le Corbusier, and the product is aptly called "Form from Process...
...suppose this is more the by-product of Peace Corps experience than a reason many students have to enter the Peace Corps. A more common but perhaps not unrelated reason is the increasing restlessness which one can observe among able and sensitive students, many of whom have been pursuing their studies under considerable pressure from about the sixth grade onward. At Harvard College, about seven-eighths of the students go on to some form of graduate or professional work; but at present, close to a fifth of the students drop out at some point for a term or more. They...
Kauffman's oyster shells, compounded into a product called Os-Cal and recommended for pregnant women with circulatory problems, have been joined by 20 other ethical drugs. For the 15-year-old company, sales last year came to $10,400,000 and Marion Laboratories was the 41st largest among some 900 U.S. drug companies. What really pleases Kauffman, however, is that his company ranked first in terms of its increase in sales and earnings and its return (44.2%) on stockholder's equity. Beyond that, Marion's net profit of 18.1% was nearly double the average...