Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surprisingly, Geneva turned out to be a cause for pessimism perhaps, but not for cynicism. The proposals put down jointly by the West-the product of countless study papers, countless conferences-proved neither unyielding nor narrow. They took account of what was legitimate in Russia's past positions on Europe; they moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail...
...Elected with the support of Communists and Peronistas, hailed as a man of the left, this cold realist soon concluded that he had to put an end to the labor featherbedding, price subsidizing and other self-indulgences institutionalized by Demagogue Juan Perón. Item: per capita gross national product had remained stationary for four years. Item: though Argentina ranked ninth in the world in oil reserves, the inefficient, 37-year-old national oil monopoly forced it to spend $300 million annually to import petroleum and refined products...
LIFE'S program includes changes in "product, pricing and production." On the editorial side, said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, the LIFE of the '60s will be taking as its province "all things human, and revealing these things sometimes through the eye of highest scholarship, sometimes through the squint of humor, and always, we hope, through the eyes of the heart. In putting out this magazine, only our convictions must remain firm. All else-tradition, technique-are game for change...
...gimmick that has worked in animals: they treat growth hormone (from cattle) with acetic anhydride, inject the resulting acetylated compound into rats. It appears to be taken up by the animals' systems in a way that blocks the effects of their own growth hormone. This beef-gland product does not work in man, but the researchers are trying to get human growth hormone and treat it the same...
...Commerce Department said the gross national product--the value of all goods and services produced--rose $14 billion to a record annual rate of $467 billion...