Word: productive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruner's book was a product of his consuming interest, which is "the great question of how you know anything"-in a word, cognition. Now Bruner is co-directing Harvard's new Center for Cognitive Studies, which he and Psychologist George Miller opened a year ago in the house once occupied by Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles Eliot...
...believes that if you can't join them, fight them is Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 53, president of the Reynolds Metals Co. To put its product to new uses, Reynolds sold sheet aluminum to U.S. canmakers for their products, but soon found them underselling aluminum cans with new "thin" tin-plate containers. Last week Dick Reynolds touched off a major battle of kick the can, announced that his company is entering the canmaking business to manufacture finished aluminum frozen-juice cans on location in Florida next season at a rate of 30 million a month. Reynolds estimates that packers...
According to a former U.S. attorney, these scandals are the product of a political favors system carried to the point where the favors themselves dominate governmental action. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article, aptly titled "Poisoned Politics," Elliot L. Richardson '41 asserts, "The most striking feature of the Massachusetts political scene...is the subordination of programs and principles to personal relationships. Friendships and enmities...courtesies and slights have an importance in determining political alignments that is exceeded only by the pocketbook...
...editors had some reason to be satisfied with their product, they were not happy with their environment. By 1914 there was more than a little agitation for a private CRIMSON building. Undergraduate interest and graduate financing combined on the project project, and in 1915 the CRIMSON ceased its nomadic existence and settled down at 14 Plympton Street, never to unsettle again...
...example, food processing companies, hog raisers, and whiskey manufacturers could absorb more. Indeed, in a system free from vagarious government supports private speculators would undoubtedly hoard cheap grain in years of exceptional abundance, contributing to price stability. When manufacturers are confronted with a glutted inventory of a particular product, they must either cut prices, shift to production of another product, or eventually go out of business. Clearly, but for the government, these would be the farmers' alternatives...