Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hassle, proposed that the same program be authorized for two years, not just one; the Senate also voted for the establishment of a 16-man committee to re-examine the entire aid program, with the thought of tying amount of aid to a percentage of the U.S. gross national product...
Modernizing Management. This widening product spread forced Mason, a Cornell-trained ('31) engineer, into doing some research of his own on Carbide's tangled management. Deciding that no consultant could possibly comprehend so diverse a company, Mason two years ago began a huge reorganization from within. Finished last fall, it streamlined Carbide into 13 operating divisions in four groups, with Mason and three executive vice presidents as a committee at the top. The new system seems to work so well that Union Carbide now has an excellent chance-even better than that of finding life on Mars...
...been forced to escalate the conflict by bombing North Viet Nam and nearly doubling its own forces in the south. Most important, Diem's fall brought to an end nearly a decade of political stability in Viet Nam. Was Diem's downfall inevitable or even imperative, the product of immutable historical forces, or merely of foolish diplomacy...
Antimatter, which has thus far been created on earth only as infinitesimal particles in giant synchrotrons, reacts violently when it comes into contact with true matter. One product of the Siberian reaction would have been a vast number of free neutrons, many of which would have joined with nitrogen atoms, turning them into radioactive carbon 14. Calculations showed that the explosion would have increased the carbon-14 content of the earth's atmosphere by about 7%. That heightened radioactivity could be expected to show up in vegetable matter a short time later...
Many students, even the greats and the greatests, are disapointed with the secretive manner in which many departments reveal their judgement. The student feeds the black-jacketed product of his several months' labor into the judging-machine and the machine ejects it two months later, accompanied perhaps by two half-pages of anonymous remarks as though his work had been graded by Harvard herself, not by two particular members of the faculty...