Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonsense, says Dr. Annie Bureau, a French birth-control expert: "This product constitutes both scientific progress and an advantage for women." Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, who deplored Roussel's decision to drop RU 486 as "a tragic display of cowardice," called the company's about-face "the right decision for the women of France and, indeed, for women all over the world...
...surface, the news from the Commerce Department looked bad. Showing the effects of a still high trade deficit and this summer's drought, the U.S. gross national product expanded at an annual rate of only 2.2% in the third quarter, down from 3.0% in the previous three months and the weakest performance in nearly two years...
...there is one indelible difference between the two that could take on central importance if the nation faced an unforeseen terrorist threat or new left-wing insurgency in Latin America. Their diametrically opposed attitudes toward military intervention and covert operations are very much a product of their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware...
...Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year, to $150 million...
...disagrees with specific farming practices, like veal production methods, the proper response is to use persuasion and publicity to convince others to share that position and abstain from the offending product. If enough agree, the market will force a modification of the unwanted behavior. Question 3 chooses the unfair and undemocratic route of coercive government meddling and destructive litigation, while it hides its true agenda with deceptively innocuous language. The state House and Senate have already rejected this measure by votes of 2 to 150, and 0 to 34. The public needs to repudiate this extremist initiative by a similarly...