Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technics; they want none of the first two, but they do want our technics; and not solely for the raising of living standards, but more significantly, because western technical culture is considered to be the world civilization of our time. They see this technical culture as a detachable product of western society. In their thinking, to assume our technics is not to re-submit to western domination, but rather to keep abreast of world civilization...
Viet Nam. Raw material producers who suffer from falling prices should not simply increase production of their rice, tin or rubber. They should boost quality, not quantity: rubber producers, for example, should strive to make their product more competitive against synthetic rubber...
Cosmic Influence. The kind of life that exists on earth, Dr. Calvin points out, has reached a critical stage. The highest product of its evolutionary chain-man-is on the point of learning how to navigate space and spread beyond the earth. "There is no reason to suppose that life, and man as its representative, will not transform any planet on which he lands, in the same way, or even in a more profound way than he has transformed the surface of the earth. It might suit him to change the orbit of the moon, and it seems within...
...chief product of Smith's typewriter is his short, sharp memos, which rarely exceed a page. They cover everything from ideas on a new plane American is considering buying to complaints about an airliner's coffee, are dispatched in a steady stream to every corner of American's operations. Wrote Smith, after noticing that souvenirs were distributed on a crack Captain's Flagship flight: "How long are you going to have them, and why have you got them...
Last week the product of Tobias' threes-months' stay in the Amarakaire village was on view at Manhattan's Peridot Gallery. In large, freely stroked oils, brown-banged, stark naked warriors tumbled in play; the camouflaged mask of a jaguar peered from a matted jungle...