Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Should we settle for that? No. As everyone now seems to recognize, we're dangerously deep in hock. The $2.5 trillion national debt amounts to 50% of our $5 trillion gross national product. There have been times in our history when that percentage was much higher and we did just fine growing our way out of the problem -- World War II sent the ratio of debt up to 127% of GNP -- so don't believe the people who tell you we're doomed. But we're nonetheless well into the discomfort zone. We've got to whittle away gradually...
...prosecutor acting in the midst of such a dispute must exercise great caution -- first, to distinguish violations of law from policy disagreements which are the expected and natural by-product of separated powers, and to make certain that the laws are applied consistently with the scope of the president's substantial constitutional authority in the area of foreign affairs...
TWENTY years ago, Joe McGinnis explained to the nation how our presidents could be sold to us like so much soap. The same soap-peddlers who gave us President Richard Milhouse Nixon have now also given us President-elect George Herbert Walker Bush. They marketed the same product twice, and the nation bought it both times...
...upbeat quarter does not guarantee a complete turnaround, however, especially since GM has not been saddled with the huge costs of retooling for new models. Says a top Ford executive: "They're on the way back. They're just not there yet." But GM's product-minded president is determined to win back customers with better-made and better-looking vehicles. Moreover, he hopes to get the cars from design tables to assembly lines in less than three years instead of the current five. Helping to speed the process and reduce costs is GM's decade-long, $50 billion investment...
...forming his attack against the tobacco giants, White makes use of examples of the cigarette industry behaving at its worst. He analyzes advertisments in both magazines and on billboards, reviews medical tracts and relies on legislation and lawsuits against tobacco companies to villify their merchandising techniques of a product he considers to be lethal. White also relies on public surveys, information from the tobacco companies themselves and his own personal experiences as a smoker to make a case that the cigarette manufactures are nothing more than industrial murderers...