Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political freedom and national progress on the continent so far has occurred in Nigeria. There, three clearly defined and potentially antagonistic tribal regions have been melded into a smoothly working two-party federal government under stolid Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Since 1950, Nigeria's gross national product has grown steadily. It now has five universities where it had none in 1947, and its primary-school enrollment has more than tripled (from 820,000 to 2,600,000) in the same time. But Sir Abubakar has his problems. Nigeria's last official census...
...from $463 billion last year to $492 billion in 1964. Confident that the U.S. consumer will put all that extra money to work, the Government also anticipates that his total spending will rise by $24 billion-$10 billion of it because of the tax cut-to $397 billion. Industrial production is expected to increase by at least 4.7%, and the gross national product will grow from $585 billion to $621 billion, creating some 3,000,000 more jobs-for a third of which the tax cut will be able to take credit...
...other hand, the Committee also strongly implied that the actual science learned--the facts about atomic structure or vertebrates--was a by-product, albeit a welcome one. What the committee primarily desired was that the student gain "an insight into the principles of science, an appreciation of the values of the scientific enterprise...
...business for 117 years, the firm operated out of a half-century-old factory in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., never spent much on advertising, only recently tested TV for the first time and has stuck tenaciously to its one product. Though the firm name is almost synonymous with cough drops, Smith Brothers has watched its sales slump to $3,500,000 a year...
Driscoll is also considering adding other products to the Smith name, but has no intention of tampering with the secret formula for the cough drops. It is known only to the late William Smith's stepson, now vice president in charge of product development, who each six months mixes a new batch of the formula in solitude...