Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special relationship with the U.S. has enabled Mexico to achieve one of the fastest growing economies in the Third World; its gross national product after several very bad years, is once again increasing by about 6% a year. But the majority of Mexicans live in bleak poverty; per capita income was $1,070 a year in 1974, one-sixth of what it was in the U.S. Moreover, Mexico has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, up to half of its work force by some estimates...
Opening procedure: write to a Chinese ministry or government-run Foreign Trade Corporation that might be interested in a product or service. Include in the packet a proposal, plus all the technical data that can be amassed-papers, speeches, manuals-and the company annual report. The Chinese want to study in advance everything about a firm. Send several copies: the Chinese may want to distribute the material widely, but they are woefully short of Xerox machines...
...remember who said it, but I understood that the University as an institution was no longer being requested to boycott a product," Wyatt said...
License-plate slogans tend to be innocuous boasts of a state's famous product: corn, copper, sunshine, lakes, Lincoln, enchantment. From 1969 on, New Hampshire car owners had a more forceful phrase, LIVE FREE OR DIE, and it drove some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...
...argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice that if they have a defective product, and know about it, they should do something about it." A jury will decide the issue when, and if, the case is tried...