Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the last shipments of matériel and talent-ranging from vitamins to valuta, feed grains to corporate planners-reached the Continent, the U.S. had pumped $13.5 billion into 16 European nations,* an amount that averaged a bit more than 1% of the U.S.'s gross national product each year. The major beneficiaries were Great Britain ($3.2 billion), France ($2.7 billion), Italy ($1.5 billion) and West Germany ($1.4 billion). Washington insisted that U.S. aid had to be organized on a pan-European basis rather than as a congeries of bilateral arrangements. Thus, with the same economics-before-politics...
Today Western Europe is the wealthiest complex of nations in the world, with a combined gross national product of $508 billion, v. the East Bloc's $443 billion. Only two former Marshall Plan members-Greece and Turkey-are still receiving U.S. economic aid, most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve...
Other purification procedures yielded a second impurity. Not a protein, it appears to be a product of the penicillin molecule itself, which forms spontaneously after penicillin is stored for even a short time. As its formation cannot be completely prevented, penicillin injections for patients known to be sensitive are still too risky...
...arrogance and pretension of Harvard musicians would be unimportant were it merely a by-product of ambitious and talented people's leading active and successful musical lives. The problem is that arrogance is not a by-product by the system's primary source of energy. It is the stimulus for many of the projects conceived and executed by musicians here and implies a basic flaw in the manner in which music is approached...
...decisions will relate much more to the quality of life and work, and power will be exercised in accordance with an ethic that consciously rejects the goals of higher consumption and materialistic satisfaction. Radical change, in this case, will not only replace the present owners of the means of production but will challenge the entire ethic which makes such ownership worth while. For SDSers reject the "crass materialism" of present society -- the values as Greg Calvert notes, that "transform people into consumers of things." They reject the statistical economic indices of the government -- employment rates, gross national product...