Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More than seven months have passed since the Consumer Product Safety Commission declared that all-terrain vehicles -- off-road buggies with three big wheels -- "pose an imminent and unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury." The commission asked the Justice Department to require extensive warnings and free training for ATV owners and a refund program for those wishing to return their vehicles, but the department has yet to file its case. Last week a House committee called the department's delay "baffling and unconscionable...
America's leadership in some industries is probably gone for good. The U.S. may never be able to make a significant comeback in mass-manufactured commodities, among them textiles, shoes, consumer electronics and machine tools. But the more complex the product, the more likely America can hold its edge. The U.S. is still strong in such products as semiconductors (world market share: 40%), personal computers (68%) and jet engines (90%). Moreover, the U.S. remains the leading force in health care, entertainment and financial services...
...century ago that the company turned innocuous soda water into what Berke Breathed has aptly described as "malted battery acid." Then, in the 1930s, it invented Santa Claus to tout its product. (Until then, Saint Nick had been a gruff, thin man. It's thanks to Coke that he's now a jolly bowl of jello...
...University invites highly controversial speakers who provoke physical reactions--both violent and non-violent--in some people." Again, Orenstein implies that responsibility for an action lies with someone other than the initiator of that action. Calero enjoys no magical power to inspire violence in people--violence is a product of the individual. Responsibility for violence lies solely with its initiator...
...company's survival rides on ideas like this? Actually, the point of the lesson isn't the product but the process of organizing a project into a "network diagram," says Instructor Ted Urban. "I've seen diagrams with 2,000 activities that would fill up that whole wall. People say, 'Oh, my God!' " But the diagram becomes a road map. You can use it to figure out that a two-week delay at Step 16 is going to cost $100,000. The alternative is to wing it, which can get expensive -- especially if you count the $287 coffee breaks...