Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that indicates the depth of the public's unease. Actually, the economy has performed impressively since the recession ended in early 1975, and it has continued to do so through the Carter presidency. By next year the U.S. should have a $2 trillion economy. Real gross national product is expected to rise by at least 5% this year, for a total of about 15% since the bottom of the recession. Unemployment has fallen by two percentage points during those same 2½ years. Inflation was cut to an annual rate of 4.2% in the three months ending in September...
...injury total, projected by Washington's Consumer Product Safety Commission, is double last year's and really moves skateboarding high up there on the list of hazardous leisure activities. For the first time, it is expected to result in more injuries than nonprofessional football (370,000) and will rank second only to bicycling accidents (with 90 million cyclists, 1.2 million injuries are anticipated for 1977). Fatalities are still a skateboarding rarity; the commission has noted only 24 in the past four years, the result of head injuries or collision with automobiles. The major causes of all those accidents...
...have been the product of Irish scribes working in a community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will...
...Claudius only feigned stupidity to save his life in that murderous, fun-filled age. While, over the years, his relatives were running from dinner or orgy with various poisons in their gullets, Claudius munched serenely on, watching and waiting and watching some more. I, Claudius purports to be the product of all that observation...
...comply with a House Un-American Activities Committee subpoena. He was a columnist for the Daily Worker, a 1952 American Labor Party candidate for Congress, a 1953 winner of a Stalin Peace Prize and the most popular American author in the U.S.S.R. "There is no nobler, no finer product of man's existence on this earth than the Communist Party," he said...