Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each of these separate phenomena is the powerful way in which older cultural and societal norms continued, even in the midst of vast economic growth that, from the time Lincoln was elected to 1894, saw the U.S. move from fourth place in terms of the value of its manufactured product, to first and a net total worth almost exceeding that of the sum-total of the three previous leaders, France, Britain and Germany. Sex, religion, nativity and prior rural and village cultures still meant something to workers caught up in an all-encompassing industrialization and its pressures to conform...
...Portillo will take office at a time when his country's economy is on the upswing. Mexico weathered the worldwide recession better than most countries in the hemisphere; the gross national product last year increased 4.5%, to $80 billion. Inflation, currently 15%, hit hard, but at a time when other developing countries were clobbered by high oil prices, Mexico has been opening up new oilfields and has even begun exporting petroleum. Many voters, though, are restless about the failure of a supposedly revolutionary party to solve such nagging social problems as high unemployment (estimated at 30%) illiteracy (27%), corruption...
...Waffle Houses is coloring its product RWB for the duration...
...first quarter of this year, business was heading back toward its pre-slump levels at a rapid clip-so rapid as to stir some fear that the economy might become overheated. Real gross national product-total output of goods and services discounted for inflation -surged ahead at an annual rate of 8.7%, astonishing for a huge, mature economy. Last week a "flash" estimate circulated within the Government that the real G.N.P. increase during the current quarter might slow to a rate of about 3%. While such early estimates are often unreliable, Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economic adviser...
...nations of Europe, Asia and Africa mostly owe their existences to accidents of geography or language, the fortunes of war or interference from imperial powers. But the U.S., to a very great extent, is the product of its citizens' own ingenuity. Faced with an untamed wilderness and distances their European forebears could barely comprehend, the settlers who came to colonize the new land responded by becoming a nation of tinkerers, backyard inventors and, ultimately, technologists. Now, lacking a wilderness but confronted with challenges as great as those faced by their ancestors, mid-20th century Americans are responding similarly...