Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tissue issue arose last week, when some dormitory residents complained the toilet paper was too rough and demanded a better product...
...publications with lower aspirations, this is often standard operating procedure. Many people in the media are almost solely interested in sensation, even when it has been carefully crafted by others for their consumption. Both sides operate for mutual benefit: newspapers gain attention for their product, and publicity hounds (who are themselves media creations) gain egomaniacal satisfaction. And the big loser is the reader...
Rose, by itself, is worth the price of this book; it is the most powerful entry in Dubus' impressive canon. Some decades down the road, enough justification will have cohered to call Rose a classic American story. And it is not, in truth, the product of a last worthless evening but of an artist in full control of his sympathies and skill...
Many of those questions have been asked before. In 1936 Economist John Maynard Keynes warned that "when the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill- done." His comments were a reminder of the speculative frenzy of the Roaring Twenties, which led, soon enough, to the Great Crash of Oct. 28, 1929. Last week, as the 57th anniversary of that dire event rolled around, new voices raised similar cautions. Said Robert Reich, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...product of the acquisition binge has been a surge in insider trading. Only in recent weeks has Wall Street begun to recover from its worst- ever scandal, when last spring Dennis Levine, a managing director of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm, admitted to using insider tips on takeover bids to trade in the shares of 54 companies. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the deals earned him $12.6 million in illegal profits. Levine pleaded guilty to four criminal counts and awaits sentencing. Eventually, four other Wall Streeters were tainted in the same scandal...