Word: productive
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...contact with a plant and the temperature falls to between 20 degrees F and 32 degrees F. The altered bacteria will be sprayed on one-tenth of an acre of strawberry plants and are expected to prevent the plants' blossoms and leaves from freezing. AGS predicts that the product could have sales of up to $100 million annually to farmers...
...Timely Beeper, also known as False Alarm, is sold by the Sharper Image, a San Francisco firm that has a mail-order catalog and several retail stores. Since it was introduced three months ago, several thousand have been sold. The product was created by Eugene Grant, 67, the founder of Omega Contract Design, a California-based designer of aerospace products. The notion came to him one day, when he found himself restless in church. Says Grant: "There I was listening to one homily after another. Meanwhile I was dying to go fishing." When a fellow churchgoer's beeper went...
...Electronic Ceremonies," Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz examine the media's responsibility for the performance-as-reality, recalling how Charles and Di's royal nuptials were transformed into a product for public consumption by the mass invitations sent out via television, the "class equalizer." Roland Barthes's "I Hear and I Obey..." goes to obscenity's other extreme, reducing audience participation to instinctive impulse. Guido Crepax's comic strip, "The Story of O," illustrates how it is in the insidious positioning of narrator and audience that pornographic outrage finds expression; as Barthes observes from the sidelines, O's sexual organ...
Quality control is an important concern at Food Services. "Checking quality is the responsibility of everyone from the director on down the line," says Walcott, adding that, at the top level, quality is checked before purchasing the product...
...Quality controls involve the opinion of at least five people," says Bauer. He explains that, if five people like one product, four like another and only one likes the third product, then the third one is ruled out from the Union menu. But, he adds, the decision between the other two would involve price considerations in addition to factors of personal taste...