Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's some question as to whether the [Students for White Supremacy] actually exist," Molin said. "This may just be a bad, sick joke--the product of one or more sick minds...
Instant feedback can be provided by a new campaign device called the Electronic Audio Response meter, or EAR. A computer-age version of the old applause meter, the EAR was developed by market-research agencies to gauge the impact of a new product or strategy, but it can be applied just as well to political campaigns. Members of a prescreened focus group are issued hand- operated dials on which to register their approval or disapproval, on a scale of 1 to 7, of whatever they are viewing on a TV screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously...
...contest, Super Bowl XXII ended by half time. As a lesson, it should last forever. The TV ratings in the late stages were the paltriest in years, but it is pleasing to imagine that this may have only partly been a product of the lopsided score, that a multitude of black children may have already raced outside to raise their arms to the sky. And not just blacks. And not just children...
...took his paperweights to a crafts show in Atlantic City. There he met Gallery Owner Reese Palley. "The minute I saw his work," says Palley, "I knew that this was the product of a person with an innate understanding of nature." Palley urged Stankard to give up his job and concentrate on fashioning flowers. He would pay him $250 a week to start; in return he would have first refusal on Stankard's work. "What should I do?" Stankard asked his wife Pat. Her reply: Wait for two weeks after the birth of their fourth child. Then...
Even traditional bagel bakers have trivialized the product by adding such flavors as pumpernickel, onion, poppy or sesame seed, and even cinnamon and raisin. The Big Apple Bagels shops in the Chicago area offer among their variations, incredibly enough, one with banana and nuts. Lender's has just introduced Big 'n Crusty, 50% larger than its regular product and looking like a sort of dimpled Superdome modeled in dough. Brothers Murray and Marvin Lender have recently expanded their Connecticut-based chain of bagel restaurants, S. Kinder (a play on the Yiddish Ess, Kinder ((Eat, children))), into Manhattan, where they offer...