Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What differs is the advertising. The variety of editions allows an advertiser who is aiming his product or service at, say, Ireland and New York to reach those particular markets in the most specific and economical sense...
...once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability of 1 out of 3; B, 1 out of 10; C, 1 out of 100. The odds against A, B and C occurring together are the product of their total probabilities...
...that an average U.S. family of four, which spent an average $8,320 last year, will spend about $8,650 this year. The brisk increase in consumer demand should go far toward bringing about what Washington foresees as a 6% gain in both corporate profits and the gross national product, to some $63.5 billion and $658 billion respectively...
...result of these events was an orderly, well-balanced expansion. Productivity rose faster than wages, and personal incomes rose much faster than prices. For the first time, consumer spending reached the $400 billion mark, personal income topped $500 billion, and the gross national product exceeded $600 billion, having risen during the year by $40 billion-half as much as the total gross national product of prospering France...
...family's second or third car. Last year 5,000,000 Americans bought miniature or portable TV sets, mostly to supplement the big sets that they already had. It was also a big breakthrough year for the color TV industry, which added $500 million to the gross national product by marketing 1,400,000 sets, almost twice as many as the year before. Consumers responded with abandon to labor-saving devices: they bought 2,000,000 frostless refrigerators, 1,600,000 electric carving knives, hundreds of thousands of electric shoe polishers and self-cleaning ovens...