Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long been the world's leading exporter, but its $121 billion in exports last year was only 6.3% of the gross national product. Exports from the much smaller economy of West Germany totaled $118 billion, or more than 27% of its G.N.P. Japan shipped out $81 billion worth of goods, or 14% of its G.N.P...
...Scorsese carefully selects his shots and sequences so that the same pattern is rarely repeated. We are spared the usual audience shots and moronic neo-groovy short interviews with way-out folks in the stands. Scorsese's emphasis decidedly falls on the music, to the benefit of the final product...
...have enough competent black technicians and managers to run the shuttered copper mines that provide about two-thirds of the country's foreign exchange earnings. Belgium's mine holdings were nationalized eleven years ago, but Belgians continue to run them and to export much of their product to Europe. Even if all the whites who worked at the vast Gé;camines mines that dominate Kolwezi could be lured back, it could still, after the last weeks' destruction, require up to a year to get the copper mines working again. In addition, the mines of Kolwezi account...
...Director Philippe de Broca (King of Hearts), this should be the end of the line. Dear Detective is by far the worst product of a career blighted by increasingly terrible movies. Despite the presence of two fine stars, the film does not contain a single spontaneous scene; the supporting players and extras often appear to be mannequins. If there is any one alive in the movie, it is only Catherine Alric, a blonde bombshell cast in the gratuitous role of a blonde bombshell...
Their bosses will like his grand conclusion even less: the press is too busy producing and selling its product on deadline, and is too closely allied with the ruling business establishment, to exert the kind of boat-rocking power denounced by such critics as Senator William Proxmire and a few TV Guide columnists. Thus it is safer and more profitable for a newspaper to denounce "Son of Sam" or the Hillside Strangler than neighborhood supermarket pricing policies. Especially on ad-filled Thursdays. "My life in journalism has persuaded me that the press too often tries to guard its freedom...