Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many college-trained women who once were concerned with the arguments of Hegel and Kant now occupy their thoughts by analyzing the qualities of a new cleaning product or recipe...
Basically unchanged since the turn of the century, chronically short-funded, West Germany's educational system is in serious trouble. In a booming economy, the percentage of the gross national product spent on education last year was a low 3.5%. Thousands of farm children still attend classes in old-fashioned one-room schoolhouses; many high schools have neither laboratories nor libraries...
...attention of all these drivers, who pass hundreds of gas stations on their travels, the oil companies are pumping more money into advertising that stresses the individuality and merit of their product. Nearly every brand now touts an additive-TCP, Petrox, Tri-tane, Boron-and a variety of octanes to suit different cars. Sunoco, for example, offers eight different octanes for practically every make and type of car. While the additives do improve auto performance and reduce maintenance problems, Elaine Yarring-ton, American Oil's marketing development manager, admits: "They do not ultimately result in any significant difference between...
Many men have made their millions by manufacturing uncomplicated products and marketing them with single-minded concentration. Atlanta's Alvin Weeks, 41, began by mixing divinity fudge on his mother-in-law's stove; with his profits, he branched into baking, saw the potential of marketing sweet rolls in easy-to-heat foil pans, this year will sell $6,000,000 worth of "Aunt Fanny's" sweet rolls to supermarkets, airlines and other large buyers. For Cincinnati's Joseph McVicker, 34, the payoff idea was to turn doughlike wallpaper cleaner into a nonsticky modeling compound...
...show up at all independence celebrations of emerging nations. Their sales have also benefited from the unexpected: Japan's National brand TV sets became an immediate bestseller in Nigeria largely because the name inspired patriotic fervor and many people thought that the sets must be a local product. "I never argue with them," says Mutsuhi Furuya, representative of the Japan External Trade Organization in Nigeria...