Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made-in-space product, tiny latex balls only a bit larger than a red blood cell, will soon go on sale. Formed in the near weightlessness of orbit in April 1983 on the Challenger shuttle flight, each of the 1,000 or so samples is exactly ten microns in diameter. Their precise uniformity makes them suitable for calibrating medical and scientific equipment or possibly destroying cancer cells. Price of the microscopic spheres: $350 to $400 each...
...same White House official conceded, however, that it would be pointless for the Administration to send a budget so stripped of popular spending programs that it would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill. He insisted that the final product would be "credible." The big questions were whether the credibility would extend to cutting the defense budget and the big middle-class entitlement programs of Social Security and Medicare...
...sharp drop in the growth of the gross national product, from 8.6% during the first half of 1984 to 2.7% in the third quarter, has already raised fears that the economy may be sliding into a new downturn. Some experts are worried that the U.S. may be heading at least into a so-called growth recession, in which the G.N.P expands too slowly to keep unemployment from rising...
...Michael Ferrante, a Corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate compliance is clearly defined by the government: computer companies must first obtain sufficient documentation and verification to know positively who the final recipient of their products will be and second they must not do business with companies on the Defense or Commerce Departments unauthorized list Companies on the unauthorized list have proven untrustworthy in their descriptions of product destinations according to the Commerce Department...
...rural English hospital, and they are directed to Alan Strang, his 17-year-old patient who, at the moment, is under hypnosis. Alan has been institutionalized after blinding six horses one night in the stable where he works on weekends. Equus is the imaginary horse god, the product of Alan's tangled mind and troubled childhood and it is Dysart's task to exorcise it from him. The question on which Peter Shaffer's play turns is, simply, does Dysart want...