Word: productive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made it out of contestant's row and onto the actual stage by making the closest guess on the price of a refrigerator. Once on stage, he played "Wrong Price," where he was presented with three items and their prices. The object of the game was to guess which product was wrongly priced...
What's the most valuable product you can manufacture? Supercomputers? Stealth bombers? Beanie Babies? David Wetherell, 44, has figured out how to fabricate the dearest items in all the land: stock in Internet companies. As chairman and CEO of CMGI, based in Andover, Mass. Wetherell has melded together the trends and technologies of the Internet into a virtual initial-public-offering factory that analysts expect will churn out perhaps half a dozen highly lucrative offerings in the next 12 months...
...abandon their cold-dead-hand absolutism and begin to compromise a little. At least one Brooklyn jury has already issued a warning: last February it ordered three gun companies to pay a young gunshot victim $500,000 after finding that they had engaged in the "negligent distribution" of their product...
...healthy living advanced the master race; Jews, Gypsies and smokers soiled the purity of the nation. The Fuhrer even boasted that his kicking the habit in 1919 helped bring about the "salvation of the German people." Hence the Allies saw the Third Reich's campaign against smoking as the product of fascism, not science. "It is still taboo to say anything positive about Nazi research," says Proctor, whose earlier work exposed the unspeakable acts of doctor-torturers like Josef Mengele. Meanwhile, the Nazis themselves continued to supply tobacco to their troops...
...course, the Freshman Musical is in many ways a learning experience for those involved, and it is not an entirely polished product. Bumpy spots in the script and score--and there are several--are smoothed over by the good intentions of the audience members, who want nothing more than to like the show that is being performed for them. Fortunately, the students involved in Hong Kong met the audience halfway, putting a lot of effort into making the evening fun for all concerned--and that's really the only thing that matters in the world of the Freshman Musical...