Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as $2,000 an ounce? One clue: it now faces an embargo because concerned Government officials are about to cut out flourishing traffic in the plant between the U.S. and the Far East. Portions of the description might apply to marijuana, heroin or cocaine, but the only product that meets all specifications is ginseng...
Johnson is a product of northern Alabama's Winston County. In that rocky hill country, few 19th century landowners had slaves, and Winston attempted to withdraw from Alabama when the state seceded from the Union. Much of the county became Republican; at one point. Johnson's father was the only Republican in the Alabama legislature...
...more evident promise of further promotion?or not hire at all. The minimum wage, says Sociologist Riesman, is the product of "an alliance of the better situated labor unions with the liberals against the deprived and the elderly, whom people would otherwise employ for household or for city work that now doesn't get done." Adds Stanford University Labor Economist Thomas Sowell, a black: "Talk about people being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some...
...however enthusiastically they may denounce the SEC, securities men know where the real trouble lies. Says Donald Marron, president of Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Inc.: "The principal problem is the fact that the product we sell has not done very well. We are selling stock at precisely where it was 13 years ago." Some investment professionals are even knocking their own principal product. Says Walter Burns, of the institutional investment advisory firm of Lynch, Jones and Ryan: "There is no longer any haven for institutional investors in common stocks. We are telling our clients to invest all their funds...
...Witteveen's direction, the IMF is selling 25 million oz. of its gold at public auction, with the profits earmarked for dispersal to underdeveloped states. (The gold was part of the entry subscription demanded of IMF members, who are assessed roughly on the basis of their gross national product and balance of payments accounts...