Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stopped, the U.S. and world economies will be in mounting danger. The cheapening of the greenback may add ¼% to 1½% to this year's U.S. inflation rate. It both raises the costs of imports, which are now about equal to 10% of the gross national product, and moves American manufacturers to increase prices on goods that compete against imports...
...Using a powdered gum base called POW!, combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting grass in it." Most gum kits are sold...
...free to pick the best jet. The problem is that the Boeing 767 and Airbus 310 are so close in price and performance that the Europeans?and the dozens of Asian and African airlines associated with them in sales and maintenance setups?may decide to buy the local product...
...Gould let Sheehy beat him into print with his own ideas? "I thought I would write a book in about three or four more years, after I had thought about the problem more." The product of his pondering is Transformations (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Though clearly more serious than Sheehy's pop-psych success, the book is unlikely to quell skepticism about research on adult cycles...
...mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost occluded by a sinister, balloon-like object (bubble gum, probably) with a hand rising behind her head like a crown...