Word: productive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME's economists predicted that the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will rise 2.9% next year. Even that modest pickup may be enough to cause a slight drop in the unemployment rate. Board members estimate that in 1986 the rate of joblessness will fall to 6.8% from today's 7% level. The current rate represents a marked decline from the November 1982 peak...
...project is being paid for by Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is interested in anything that relates to its product. Says Vellinger: "If space chickens turn out to be better than earth chickens, Kentucky Fried Chicken might be interested in raising chickens in a weightless environment." In other words, the colonel wants to see if space chickens have the right stuff...
...tobacco industry is far from being the nation's largest advertiser: last year it spent only $872 million on ads, in contrast to $2.9 billion by food and food-product companies and $2.7 billion by the auto industry, and it accounted for 9% of magazines' advertising revenue and 1% of newspapers'. The A.M.A.'s proposed ban was immediately criticized not only by advertising and publishing-industry groups but by the American Civil Liberties Union and most First Amendment scholars, who believe that the proposal may be hazardous to the Constitution. "While the Government has an interest in preserving the health...
...supposed to look like a rocket or an actual candle or a tiny fluted Doric column. But the black-paneled Atwater Kent radio from the same period has a machine-age spareness that is, like Fred Astaire, both suave and ingenuous. It is an American synthesis that product design has only lately been recapturing, as in Apple's nubile Macintosh computer...
...days are mixed. Interest rates on five-year Treasury bonds have fallen from 9.62% to 9.13% since August, and unemployment in November was 7%, its lowest level since President Reagan took office. But growth is not strong, and there are few signs of a coming pickup. The gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 4.3%, but fourth-quarter expansion is expected to be slower. Some Wall Street sages, though, do not worry about trying to figure it out. Says Barton Biggs, managing director at Morgan Stanley: "The best kind of market is one like...