Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan years, nothing more than public relations ploys cooked up for a domestic audience. Presidents meet their Soviet counterparts to prove that superpower relations are not as bad as critics claim. Or they go to sign treaties. But the treaties are never negotiated in person: they are the product of several months or years of hard work awaiting only the signature of two leaders--leaders who more often than not aren't capable of understanding the detail of the agreements...
...this progress? It would be cynical to think so. Rather, it is the product of developers' eagerness to cash in on the local economic boom. More than ever, the Square is a hot property. Not only is it in a prosperous intellectual and technological center, but it also draws legions of tourists and well-heeled students each year. No wonder property values have reached the stratosphere...
...field a team if it comes to a strike," says Tex Schramm, president of the Dallas Cowboys. "I think we can put on quality football games." Doug Allen, assistant executive director of the players union, understandably disagrees: "Without our players on the field, it will be a ragtag, shoddy product." TV would hardly pay full price ($476 million) for renegades, and the affections of the fans are still frayed from the last unpleasantness...
...British conglomerate; so is French's mustard. The take from Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel and Country Club, one of the best-known American gambling and entertainment centers, will soon go to its new Japanese owner. The latest hit recording by Country Singer Kenny Rogers is a foreign-owned product; his record label, RCA, is now West German property. And what about breakfast (or a diamond ring) at Tiffany, or drinks in the literarefied atmosphere of Manhattan's Algonquin hotel? Those vintage landmark buildings are now Japanese possessions...
...hear the defectors tell it, you have to be an unemployed monk with rich friends to run comfortably. The nominating process, the product of accident rather than design, imposes crushing demands. At some point each hopeful must ask a cruel question: Am I a thick-skinned workaholic unconcerned about my . family's privacy, with enough ambition and money to carry me through more than 30 primaries and hundreds of fund raisers...