Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system that makes both managers' and workers' incomes heavily dependent upon profit and, in consequence, on the level of sales. This has spurred a flurry of interest in the consumer's tastes and purchasing power and even an official campaign to introduce radio commercials and improve product packaging, window displays, neon lighting, and other once-deprecated Western advertising techniques...
...economy, last week ticked off yet another record. It completed 80 consecutive months of expansion, equaling the war-fueled record set between 1939 and 1945, and showed no signs of pausing. Later this month, the nation will pass two other important statistical bench marks. At midmonth, the gross national product will top the $800 billion level; the $1 trillion mark is certain to be reached in the early 1970s. And on Nov. 20, at precisely 11 a.m., the Census Bureau's population clock, which records an additional American every 141 seconds, will register 200 million...
...relatively few, noisy disciples of McCarthyism created a highly inaccurate picture of the place of patriotism in the U.S. and gave it a bad name. The truth is that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis...
...would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused. The buffeting that Matthew says Jesus received from Sanhedrin members was thus not punishment for blasphemy but simply the product of bitter frustration. "Jesus had refused to cooperate and to bow to their authority," says Cohn, "and there was nothing that could be done to prevent the trial from taking its course...
...will put commercial television out of business. But there is enough viewer weariness with standard TV to suggest that the noncommercial brand should find a receptive audience. And it may even come to pass that competition from successful public TV will force the commercial networks to improve their product...