Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal jury has convicted a former Princeton graduate student of "product tampering and communicating false information" for planting a cyanide-laced teabag in a local supermarket last February, The Daily Princtonian reported last month...
...dominoes are not likely to fall in the immediate future, however. Looking at the economy's current performance, TIME's board members forecast a 2.9% growth rate in the gross national product during 1987. That compares with a 2.5% pace in 1986. The board's projection is even more optimistic than the average suggests, since it is based on the assumption that economic activity will pick up as 1987 progresses, ending the year at a 3.8% clip. Says Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota professor: "The winds of change are blowing...
...special public service, a few soundtracks specially geared to the Harvard lifestyle. These songs are the product of those early Dorm Crew mornings when, bored with bashing my howling vacuum cleaner into your hallway doors, I begin to long desparately to be someone else...
...success; Brighton Beach Memoirs and 'night, Mother find their way to film. All of which means . . . very little. Perhaps that there is lower financial risk in stories with few characters and no special effects. Or that the ravenous appetite of the home-video market can be easily stoked with product that has proved its value in another venue. Or that moguls have decided to bankroll a few films with their wives in mind instead of their kids...
...will describe the new material and details of how it was developed in an upcoming issue of Physical Review Letters, but the University of Houston has already applied for a patent on both product and process. If it is granted, Chu stands to share in the profits, which could be large. "It's phenomenal -- we're excited," says Robert Jake of American Magnetics, a manufacturer of superconducting magnets. "But it will take several years of research and development to make it feasible for commercial application." When such applications come, says Chu, they will make clear the significance of his discovery...