Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Buettner-Janusch, whose health is reportedly poor, is presently being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. He is charged with the attempted murder of a federal judge and his wife, tampering with a consumer product, and mailing injurious matter. The maximum sentence for these four counts is 63 years. A date has not yet been set for the trial...
...Toscanini had conducted more modern works, more American works, Horowitz suggests, then perhaps classical music would not be as ossified as it is today, with young performers playing the same, standard works dating from earlier centuries. Toscanini, for Horowitz, was more than just a product of his times. He was also a formative influence on the American musical scene of his time and ours...
...into John Andrews' Tampa law office with a disposable Bic lighter, and Andrews will truly dispose of it -- on the spot. Andrews is one of several attorneys who have brought a growing number of negligence suits against French-owned Bic since 1981, charging the firm with manufacturing a hazardous product...
Officials of Bic, which has its U.S. headquarters in Milford, Conn., note that product packages warn customers to make sure the lighter flame is doused after use. But the warnings do not appear on the lighters themselves. For his part, President Bruno Bich says that "Bic manufactures the best lighter on the market...
Perhaps no budget is without some fat, but university officials argue that their unique function requires special standards of evaluation. "One of the peculiarities of education is that our customer is also our product," says University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney. "That confuses most analogies between universities and profit-making enterprises." In universities, notes Northwestern President Arnold Weber, all the money is ploughed into the operation: "We don't declare dividends; we don't give stock options to our administrators." Tuition increases, say officials, are driven by the universities' costs, and even at that, tuition income typically covers less than...