Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goals. We want to take a viable company into the 1990s. We've never had a "size" goal per se, although you do need critical mass to be one of the survivors. Service is going to be critical to how popular our product is. It takes a while for individual perceptions to wear off, but product after product -- not just Tylenol -- has gone through difficult periods of perception and changed fairly dramatically...
...next step is to have more flexible robots so that you can manufacture things that have smaller product line runs. Flexible manufacturing could save a lot of inventory costs," said Woods...
...rumble-voiced Illinois Senator has magically emerged as a swan in the Democratic race, partly by playing on his rumpled lack of glamour. Staring into the camera at the end of the first Democratic debate in July, he intoned, "If you want a slick packaged product, I'm not your candidate. If you want someone who levels with you, who you can trust, I am your candidate." Something in that simple Simon sermon resonated with Democratic voters: authenticity in an age of image...
...Japanese, virtually tribal in their consensual citizenship, have a fairly smooth decision-making process. The Prime Minister, a product of the Diet (Parliament), reports weekly to the legislature in what Columbia Law School's Michael Young calls an "environment of interaction, conciliation and accountability." In addition, Japanese politicians "engage in continual and intense negotiation with the private sector." In America, the President and Congress constantly collide, as do the Government and business...
...rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because no other would do: panic. The frenzy...