Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reported that sales during the four-week period ended Dec. 27 totaled a record $1.7 billion. Analyst Walter Loeb of the Manhattan investment banking house of Morgan Stanley believes the new office will enable Sears' key officers to concentrate more intensively on sprucing up the firm's product styles, merchandising techniques and customer relations...
Both books are cashing in on the nation's current mood of disillusionment and individual helplessness, which social scientists see as the sour product of the recession and the dashed hopes of the 1960s. In insisting that hard work will get you nowhere, Korda and Ringer are preaching to a growing number of converts. Says Paula Landau, consultant for an "assertion" training group in North Hollywood, Calif: "There is an unprecedented feeling of loss of control. The middle class is losing out, and they know it." According to U.C.L.A. Psychologist Manuel Smith, author of the self-assertion bestseller When...
...Mayer household, it is Jean who does the family grocery shopping. "It's an essential part of writing my column," he said, adding that he spends a lot of time reading product labels. "One look at a label is enough to convince me that I want no part of some goods," he said...
...from front and back simultaneously so that his hair glows around him like a halo, Sarastro is presented as a wise, paternal New Testament God. The Queen is very female and very nasty, the kind of role Bette Davis made unforgettable. Her malevolent, teeth-gnashing character is a product of the Mason's profound anti-female bias (as Sarastro explains the abduction to Pamina: "You need a man to guide you."). Prince Tamino, the initiate-to-be, has both ineffable simplicity and moral sturdiness. A trusting character, he's not terribly bright. He understands nothing of the immortal intrigues going...
Getting out of computers could save the company up to $120 million in taxes on future profits. Having already divested the company of a West German mail-order house, an Italian manufacturer of refrigerators and washing machines, a water-treatment equipment firm and a phototypesetting product line, Singer's management is clearly concentrating on reducing a debt that now exceeds $700 million and increasing earnings that peaked in 1973 at $94 million on $2.4 billion in sales. Throughout Singer's fling with multinational conglomeration, its oldest product never stopped making money. In 1974 the consumer-products division, chiefly...