Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clink, clink, clink. My fellow champagne makers, may I have your attention? Let us raise our glasses to 1984, the best year in our history, and to the U.S. consumer, who has developed a passion for our product! Our noble wine has now become mother's milk for yuppies...
...economy sent out encouraging signals of its own last week. The Commerce Department estimated that the gross national product grew 2.8% during the fourth quarter. That so-called flash figure exceeded expectations that growth would be in the 1.5%-to-2.5% range. At the same time, Commerce underscored the sharpness of the third-quarter slowdown by adjusting its estimate of that period's G.N.P. gain from 1.9% to 1.6%. The Government also reported that the November consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.7%, the smallest increase since June. Meanwhile, Americans' personal income rose a vigorous...
TIME'S economists predicted that the gross national product will expand 2% this quarter, down from the 4% they foresaw last September, and then grow a healthy 3% to 4% in 1985. That increase would be typical for the third year of an economic recovery. Board members predicted that the pickup will trim unemployment from the 7.2% rate it unexpectedly fell to in November to 7% by mid-1985. They look for joblessness to remain stuck at that relatively high level through...
...winner. At stores around the U.S., the PCjr is suddenly one of the fastest-selling computers on the shelves, often outperforming cheaper, game-oriented machines like the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. "This may be an industry first," says Stephen Guty, editor of McGraw-Hill Computer Books. "No product has ever been successfully resurrected after being so condemned...
...production takes the play out of its unreal "bare interior, grey light" and into a post-apocalyptic reality that manages to be much more effective and powerful than a 28-year-old musing on being and nothingness. The subway cars, the flickering overhead light, the crumbling walls and ceiling--they are all part of this, the post-industrial age. The set may be a product of the '80s, but it is as true to Beckett as he was to himself 30 years...