Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GROWTH REGULATION. Growth regulators, those hormone-like substances that control the growth patterns of plants and tell them when to ripen, drop their fruit or prepare for the onset of winter, also have potential for increasing production. Thompson seedless grapes are routinely sprayed with a substance called gibberellic acid, which promotes cell growth and helps produce plumper fruit. A Monsanto product called Polaris is being used experimentally to increase sugar production: sprayed on fields, the chemical enhances the ripening of sugar canes. This, it is believed, boosts their sucrose content and may raise their yield of raw sugar...
...upturn that began just about a year ago seems to be picking up speed. For example, the Government reported last week that real gross national product-output of goods and services, discounted for inflation-rose 8.5% in the first quarter, rather than 7.5% as first estimated. Corporate profits before taxes jumped 45% over the first quarter of 1975, to a near-record annual rate of $140.8 billion...
...drearily familiar story: a consumer buys an auto, refrigerator, sofa or whatever, and signs a time-payment contract. The product quickly breaks down or proves otherwise defective, and the dealer refuses to repair or replace it. Understandably, the consumer then tries to withhold payment-only to find that his contract has been sold by the dealer at a discount to a bank, finance company or other lender. The lender proclaims, quite correctly, that as the purchaser of a presumably valid contract-in legal parlance, as a "holder in due course"-he has no responsibility for the merchandise...
Student reaction to the fence was mixed. Jonathan D. Keeley '78, who runs by the river, said yesterday that he thought the fence was "aesthetically displeasing, but that the end product of a cleaner river was worth the short sacrifice...
...Production will rise more than expected. In December the board's average prediction was that real gross national product-total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation -would rise 6.2% in 1976. Now the range of guesses is from 6.3% (Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank) to 6.9% (Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., an economic consulting firm...