Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor shortages could worsen considerably this year as the U.S. economy starts to grow with renewed vigor. Government figures released last week showed that the gross national product expanded at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 1986, nearly five times as fast as in the last quarter of 1985. The sharp pickup in growth may prove to be quirky, but it got an additional boost late in the week when the Federal Reserve Board cut its discount rate, which is the interest charged on loans to member banks, from 7% to 6.5%, its lowest level in eight...
While the program's unmerciful skits have certainly turned plenty of heads in Britain, not everyone regards the product as a jolly good show. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who has been portrayed chatting with Adolf Hitler on immigration policies, saw the satire once and decided that she had seen enough. Many critics have complained that the show's cynicism is too easy and its script sophomoric. Almost everyone, however, concedes that the japery is nonpartisan. The House of Commons actually has a videotape of the show delivered each week...
...most intriguing, in an era when women's hormonal reactions have been curiously represented on screen by male voyeurs like Fellini, Goddard and Malle, Smooth Talk is the product of female director Joyce Chopra, a 48-year-old documentary veteran making her feature-film debut...
With the help of Wall Street research, 15 HMC analysts decide how to invest Harvard's billions. Corporate histories, product break-downs, and earning estimates compiled by investment brokers plus 10 calls a day link the analysts to the researchers...
...week. More than five weeks after a number of vintners were first discovered to be adulterating their low-priced table wines with methyl alcohol, which is more commonly used as a paint solvent, at least 22 Italians had died and about 90 others were hospitalized after drinking the contaminated product. As the death toll rose, the Italian government listed some 300 labels as suspect, prompting worldwide concern and threatening the country's $953 million wine-export trade...