Word: productive
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...conclusion of BACKFIRE: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did is precisely the opposite. Loren Baritz attempts to show the Vietnam War as a product of the American political and cultural psyche, a war that had to be fought because of the way we viewed ourselves and our role in the world. It was a war that was lost because Vietnam was not the country our leaders had decided it to be, and the reality they chose to see was completely unrelated to what the fighting in Vietnam, even...
...literary taxidermy. The loose structure is contained within the story of Braithwaite's search for the stuffed parrot which served as the model for Loulou, the parrot of this housekeeper Felicite in Flaubert's tale "Us Center Simple" ("A. Simple Heart"). More than the trivial by-product of Braithwaite's loopy obsession, the quest for the real parrot becomes a tongue-in-beak metaphor for the essence of Flaubert...
...government will help foreign manufacturers break into the $26 billion Japanese telecommunications market by simplifying product standards...
Hoxha, the product of a middle-class Muslim home and a French education, rose to power as head of the partisan resistance to the German and Italian occupation in World War II. He ruled Albania ruthlessly, sending tens of thousands to forced-labor camps. He tolerated no political opposition, and his rivals were frequently eliminated, including Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, his closest associate. Shehu was officially reported to have committed suicide in December 1981, but it was widely rumored that Hoxha shot him in an argument over seeking ties with the West, which Hoxha then opposed...
...million) said the loss was caused by the creation of a $615 million fund, the largest in a pharmaceutical liability case, that the company set up to cover pending and future claims filed by women who bought Dalkon Shields between 1971 and 1974. The firm stopped marketing the product in the latter year, following the reported death of a user. Since then, more than 12,000 people have filed suits claiming that the Dalkon Shield causes pelvic infections, sterility and infected miscarriages. The device, which was bought by some 2.9 million women in the U.S., has since been linked...