Word: product
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours we'll just sell them right off the truck." Lory Shaw, a buyer for California's 41-store Music Plus chain, enthuses, "It's the biggest advance buy we've ever made. And it's the first time we've taken advance orders from customers for any audio product...
...occupational health services; is universal in coverage, community controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges, is sensitive to the particular health needs of all, and is efficient in containing its cost; and whose yearly expenditure does not exceed the proportion of the Gross National Product spent on health care in the immediately preceding fiscal year...
...naked AIDS virus converts its RNA into double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the master molecule of life. The molecule then penetrates the cell nucleus, inserts itself into a chromosome and takes over part of the cellular machinery, directing it to produce more AIDS viruses. Eventually, overcome by its alien product, the cell swells and dies, releasing a flood of new viruses to attack other cells, including more helper T cells and macrophages. The immune system, deprived of a crucial number of those vital T cells, is unable to direct the fight against infection. A host of opportunistic diseases, normally warded...
...economy seemed to rejuvenate itself during the third quarter. The Commerce Department reported last week that the gross national product grew at the respectable annual rate of 2.4% for the three months ending with September. The sharp improvement over the all but lifeless .6% growth in GNP that was posted during the second quarter at least momentarily quieted fears of a downturn. Says Walter Heller, a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota: "There is no recession in sight...
...sold about 20 million copies, but may not catch Michael Jackson's Thriller (35 million copies). Even so, the price of the Springsteen package is more than three times what Thriller costs (about $8), and thus the Boss's live recordings could easily generate more revenue than any other product in music history...