Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepening business lull. The Government reported last week that real gross national product-total output, adjusted for inflation-rose only 3.8% in the third quarter, rather than 4% as was first estimated. Industrial production fell .5% in October, the second straight monthly decline, and housing starts also dipped. Carter in January is likely to propose a $10 billion to $15 billion tax cut to pep up demand; his chief economic adviser, Lawrence R. Klein, has said that the country may need an annual growth rate of 7% to reduce unemployment significantly...
Making Merry. With vodka having overtaken bourbon as the nation's best-selling liquor, the U.S. distributors of the famed Angostura bitters have marketed their first new product in 150 years: the Angostura Bloody Merry-Maker. Unlike the other Bloody Mary mixes that have long been available, Angostura's version is all additives, leaving the bartender to provide his own tomato juice and vodka. The idea behind the bottled blend of Worcestershire sauce, natural lemon flavor, bitters and spices is to let drinkers mix their Bloody Marys to taste. Each eight-fluid-ounce bottle ($1.60) can be used...
...have a background or vocabulary of contemporary music to relate to contemporary music that they are hearing for the first time. And there is no real contemporary style; trends in modern music are scdivergent that familiarity with one school may be of little help in evaluating the product of another...
...that men so directly involved in the blacklist turmoil failed to create a more moving film. Certainly for all of them The Front was a painful labor, but it also must have been a labor of love, filled with lofty purpose and deep emotion. Why, then, such a mediocre product? Although Allen and Mostel turn in excellent performances, neither are quite right for their roles. Allen particularly does not fit in a movie of this type. He is the classic nebbish, but the very qualities that contribute to his comic genius detract from the solemnity of the film. The mere...
...child is influenced by more than just the product itself, Pierce said. Commercials teach children the values advertisers want them to hold...