Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...governmental participation by Italy's Communist party--based on the increasingly anachronistic assumption that European communist parties are part of a monolithic bloc under Soviet domination--is both shortsighted in terms of American interests and insensitive to the needs of the Italian people. The PCI's rise is the product of long-term changes in Italian society, economy and politics--changes which are unlikely to be reversed. American interference is unlikely to prevent the PCI's victory; it will only antagonize the electorate. Furthermore, a compromise between the Christian Democrats and Communist parties is the development most likely to provide...
...Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. It was an odd linkage for the members of this trio, who strongly disagree on some policies and would certainly deny being downbeat on America. At any rate, says Holbrooke, the U.S. is not in bad shape-it still leads the world in gross national product, food production and military strength. Warnings of America's imminent decline, he concludes, could become self-fulfilling prophecies...
...Yorkers, meanwhile, are having to do without Blue. The last show featured a demonstration of a product called "candy pants," in which a woman chewed part of the spun-sugar underpants off a man who was wearing them. Congress or the courts will have to decide whether or not that sort of thing can be allowed within the context of the FCC's goal of "opening new outlets for local expression [and] the promotion of diversity in television" and, if it cannot, who is to be held responsible...
Most Americans have never heard of Jack Richard Simplot. But they know of his product and doubtless have eaten it. As the "Idaho potato king," as well as the nation's largest supplier and processor of potatoes, Simplot funnels millions of ready-cut spuds to McDonald's, which turns them into millions of French fries to go with its quick-food goodies. But Simplot has a reputation as a wheeler-dealer in his favorite commodity, and last week he found himself entangled in the biggest potato-futures default in the 104 years of the New York Mercantile Exchange...
...commonly held that Southwestern salesmen manipulate people who don't need the product into buying it anyway. If anything becomes clear after an entire summer of selling with Southwestern, it is that even the very best salesmen hear far more rejections than acceptances. Anyone who attends a Southwestern interview learns that the average salesman, who earns over $2,000, hears some 27 rejections per day in the course of hearing just three acceptances. The best salesmen do no more than listen to a person's needs, and then determine if and how the product might help to fill those needs...