Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dean of the Graduate School of Design Gerald M. McCue said Mitchell's appointment was the product of a search begun last spring for a scholar who would strengthen the use of computer design and graphics in the architecture department...
Apple is promoting its new product on the college market with the same marketing techniques that helped it snap up a large share of the college market two years ago with the highly publicized Macintosh. The computer firm invited college computer officials from all over the country to attend an all-expenses-paid information seminar on the MacPlus in San Francisco in January...
...that a falling currency, like a rising one, offers both opportunities and perils. By making American companies more competitive with foreign rivals, it should help shrink the U.S. trade deficit, which hit a record $148.5 billion last year. Narrowing that gap would create jobs and boost the gross national product. Government figures released last week showed that the GNP grew at an annual rate of only 1.2% in the fourth quarter of 1985 and 2.3% during the year as a whole, the smallest increase since 1982. The weakening dollar will also reduce demands that Congress take protectionist action against imports...
...know that the only real question facing a potential audience member is whether The Hitcher is a "good" B-rate flick or a "bad" B-rate flick. Another slasher film could have taken the urban legend style, Riders on the Storm hitchiker killer motif and made a palatable product for the sanguinary tastes of the nation's youth. But though its premise is good, The Hitcher fails to deliver, and the audience is tediously dragged over the desert highways of this misdesigned film...
Lawrence's comparison is dubious and dangerous. Equating classroom and newspaper is like equating the process of debate with its product. Commentators and politicians have made a case against AIA's methods by arguing from the liberal perspective that sees the organization as a right-wing group that uses McCarthyist methods...