Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is a maharishi to do when sales start to grow sluggish? One answer: announce a shiny new product. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder and guru of Transcendental Meditation (TIME cover, Oct. 13, 1975), has done just that. TM monthly enrollment slid from its 1975 peak of 40,000 trainees a month to a low of 4,000 this year, partly because the Maharishi invited several thousand of his teachers to TM headquarters in Switzerland to acquaint them with the organization's new wares. The teachers have now brought those wares to the American market: lessons that will lead...
...robust rate. In the second quarter, when President Carter dropped his $50 tax rebate stimulus proposal, some seers again lowered their sights-and again were proved wrong. Last week the Commerce Department reported that in the three months ending in June, the nation's real gross national product grew at a healthy annual rate of 6.4%. That compares favorably with the first quarter's growth, which last week was revised upward from...
Greater use of less-efficient labor, however, will slow growth. By the end of the century, Jorgenson forecasts, "there will be a reduction in gross national product of 10% below what it would have been" had the pre-OPEC balance between the costs of utilizing labor and capital continued...
...concepts are startling?and disturbing. Conflict between parents and children is biologically inevitable. Children are bora deceitful. All human acts?even saving a stranger from drowning or donating a million dollars to the poor?may be ultimately selfish. Morality and justice, far from being the triumphant product of human progress, evolved from man's animal past, and are securely rooted in the genes...
Sociobiologists believe that self-deception is also a product of evolution, simply because a cheater can give a more convincing display of honesty if he lies to himself as well as to his neighbor. Says Zoologist Richard Alexander of the University of Michigan: "Selection has probably worked against the understanding of such selfish motivation becoming a part of human consciousness." Adds Trivers: "The conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution...