Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience-and sometimes even when one is not-Reagan pays tribute to the nation's P.O.W.s. After a straightforward, not to say prosaic delivery, there is a glimpse of the old actor. His voice lowered, his throat catching, but with conviction, he declares: "They are just simply the product of the greatest free system the world has ever known." The line usually brings down the house...
...bright and high-powered guy," had just become editor of the Harvard Political Review, bringing with him the seeds of a cultural revolution. Mendelson's predilictions were towards graphics, promotion, and marketing, as were those of his associate editor, Tim Bliss '75. They thought that with a slicker-looking product the Review could appeal to a much wider audience than just the Harvard wastebaskets where it had languished so long...
Saylor terms the Mendelson period an "identity crisis--we were losing our identity as a political journal." White agrees: "Rick and Tim viewed the Review more as a marketable product than anything else. Their entrepreneurial spirit was permeating the editorial staff." Saylor says that Mendelson and Bliss's pursuit of professional content and production and a firm financial base "soon became transformed into a sort of entrepreneurial game. With all the interest in marketing we kind of lost sight of what kind of magazine we were putting out." Even the SAC had harsh words for Mendelson and Bliss: "Nothing like...
...cautious optimism for the rest of 1976-but deep worry, at least among the liberals, about 1977. So far, the economists agree, the recovery is proceeding right in line with their forecasts (TIME, Dec. 22), which call for a rise of about 6% in real gross national product this year and a decline in unemployment to somewhere between 7% and 7.5% by year's end. Last week the Department of Labor reported that the jobless rate dropped from 8.3% in December to 7.8% in January. That was the steepest monthly decline in more than 16 years, and especially welcome...
...turned out to be Grimes' only listeners, the executive related and began to reminisce. He described how he first encountered "the natural thing" while working for a supermarket in California, and how he became convinced that Brigham's could develop a natural ice cream without "putting down our main product." Shaking his head sadly, he decried the recent trend among some students denigrating large businesses...