Word: productive
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...California surfers, Michael Rodgers, 25, and Tony Cassella, 28, came up with the idea for colored sunscreens in 1982, but it took them more than three years to recruit a chemist and find a lab to make the product. The time, it turned out, was well spent. Since their Zinka appeared in February, more than 90,000 .75-oz. tubes have been sold, at $4.50 each, in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Europe. In the meantime, an Australian firm marketed a similar product, Le Zink, in October, but it did not reach the U.S. until last month. It comes...
...hopes of stimulating similar long-term thinking and national commitment, the Paine commission produced a glossy, colorfully illustrated 211-page report that implicitly dismisses the worries about America's current space failures as the product of small minds and faint hearts. Calling the solar system "our extended home," the document urges the U.S. to take logical, sequential steps toward colonizing space over the next 50 years. It assumes that NASA's proposed orbiting space station will be in place by 1994. Simultaneously, research would proceed on both an aerospace plane (President Reagan's so-called Orient Express), capable of taking...
Sperry managers may be another matter. The company that sold Univac, the first successful commercial computer, in the 1950s has lost much of its marketing sparkle in recent years. Entrenched bosses may be partly responsible. Says one Sperry product executive: "As a manager, there is almost nothing you can do to get fired here." Considering the new circumstances, those could be famous last words...
...several thousand who will graduate today have been part of a real world for the entire four, seven, 15 or however many years they have gone to school here. They are the consumers of a product sold by the Harvard Corporation...
Ironically, it is this same cold-blooded rationality and distance from the political process that has been blamed for Carrington's gravest governmental missteps. The self-analytical Carrington once described himself as a product of privilege, and few would care to disagree with his assessment. Yet he once neglected the opportunity--available for half a year during the 1960s by virtue of an act of Parliament--to renounce his inherited peerage and run for the elected House of Commons. Nor, in all likelihood, would he seriously consider giving up his seat in the House of Lords for the sake...