Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puzzles them how a complex and little-regulated society can maintain such a high level of production, efficiency and technological innovation. Many are inclined toward the fantastic notion that there must be a secret control center somewhere in the U.S. They continue to chew on Lenin's dogma that bourgeois governments are just the "servants" of monopoly capital. Is that not the secret control center? The great gap in Soviet understanding of U.S. policies and practices sometimes means that even experienced message carriers and advisers of the Politburo like Anatoly Dobrynin, the longtime Ambassador in Washington, do not necessarily convey...
...Richard Nixon and John Kennedy "a pair of boots," explaining: "You can't say which is better, the left or the right." In private he had a different attitude. At a luncheon before his departure, he became angry at the mention of Nixon's name: "He's a typical product of McCarthyism, a puppet of the most reactionary circles in the U.S. We'll never be able to find a common language with him." He said that "we can influence the American presidential election." He related how he saw through the Americans when the Eisenhower Administration asked us to release...
...past two year, contributors across the country have created banner segments in accordance with he scheme "What I would miss most in a nuclear war." According to organizers, each state will bring its finished product to Washington on August 4, the 40th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The 50 ribbons will be tied together and strung around the government complex in a weekend-long demonstration that has been approved by the Pentagon through the General Services Administration...
Although the finished product, consisting of the 50 states' combined efforts will find its permanent resting place in Chicago's Peace Museum, temporary displays of completed panels will appear across the country to set the age for the August event...
Such forecasts reflect bullish signs on the economic front. The Federal Government reported last week that business activity was healthier in 1984 than at any other time in recent memory. The gross national product grew 6.8% during the year, for the largest increase since 1951. Inflation, meanwhile, was just 3.7% for the year as a whole, the lowest since 1967. Said Jones: "We may be entering a new golden age similar to the 1960s, when we had both low inflation and solid growth...