Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recession is roughly defined as two consecutive quarters of real decline in the gross national product. Most of the six U.S. recessions since World War II have started with high interest rates' causing a slowdown in housing. Then; came reduced consumer spending and cutbacks in business outlays for plant and equipment. Even if the prospective recession follows that traditional pattern, though, most economists now believe it will be comparatively mild and not a repetition of the severe downturn...
Enough food is left over to make the export capacity of American agriculture the hope of the have-not world. Farm-product exports tripled in the past six years to almost $27 billion, helping mightily to offset the cost of imports. The U.S. exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. Pat Benedict and farmers like him are America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were...
...which is fine with the author, who shuttles between Switzerland and New York. At 65, he cherishes few illusions. "I am," he says simply, "a product of my times." Shaw spent five decades writing big movies and novels (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and unprofitable short fiction, because "in a novel or a play you must be a whole man. In a collection of stories you can be all the men or fragments of men, worthy and unworthy, who in different seasons abound in you. It is a luxury not to be scorned...
...LITTLE BOY, they will even sell you pleasure. Beware your senses, for they will market them and seduce you with their product, and you will find (once you've paid for it) that it is empty--empty and shallow and disingenuous enough to make America sick for a thousand years...
...most part, the anal-retentives have learned to control their product pretty well and so they throw this Kansas-Eagles spaceshit in my face and tell me to mellow out and "get into it," or dis-co-here-dis-co-there tell me to dance, and they even tell me how to dance. Too many commercial smiles in 1978, not enough clenched teeth and sweating brows...