Word: productive
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...years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military academy in 1955, and is a combat veteran of the Viet Nam War. Chun consolidated his hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded...
Whether they fly coach or first class, Yanks are landing in all corners of Europe. In Italy, where tourism accounts for 7% of the gross national product, the splashing Fountain of Trevi in Rome is once more filling up with the coins tossed by sentimental U.S. tourists. The Swiss state railways report that Americans planning vacations in Switzerland bought twice as many rail passes in May as they did a year earlier. The airline SAS reports that tickets from the U.S. to Scandinavia are "basically sold...
Proponents of integrating ethics into the educational system say that an entire generation--the product of post-Vietnam disillusionment--has been educated in an ethical void. They argue that it is through education that new standards will be transmitted. But they add that there is a fine line between concern for ethics in the educational system and a bias toward outmoded ethical systems, which represents a return to the days of religion and the pledge of allegiance...
...many ways the Marshall Plan was the product of perceived lessons from America's lack of involvement in the period leading up to the rise of Nazi Germany and the reasons for that rise...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...