Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dyed shirt, and my long hair was as distinctive in last week's crowd as my age. It seems that college students are no longer the conscience nor the vanguard of the nation. Students were far outnumbered by constituencies whose activism is very much a product of this decade...
Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...
...author chides his subject for the "Poor Richard" pose he so often adopted toward his struggles. In fact, his meteoric rise was as much a product of good luck as of hard work. Nixon entered the House during a brief, aberrant period of Republican control, when choice committee assignments were being handed out to eager freshmen. His Red-scare tactics benefited immensely from the awful example of Senator Joseph McCarthy: "McCarthy's charges were so extreme, his inability to back them up so obvious, that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak...
...period, a 32-year-old lawyer named Sasha expanded his modest, one-man costume-jewelry business. Since selling in public is no longer illegal, he arranged for three friends to go to work for him. They took over sales, while Sasha commissioned two part-time jewelers to manufacture the product. That amounted to the illegal hiring of workers, but the profits kept everybody happy...
...twinkly sugar daddy beneath. In O'Toole's view, the play is only outwardly about the civilizing of the street- corner flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who learns from " 'iggins" the speech and manner of a duchess. Underneath, he says, the play is about taming Higgins, a knowing product of the world of decorum and privilege who has never envisioned a place in it for himself. Perhaps the key line of dialogue is Higgins' tossed-off confession, "I've never been able to feel really grown-up and tremendous, like other chaps." Says O'Toole: "Eliza from the start yearns...