Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who do not look kindly on Thompson's scream-of-consciousness writing style consider his stuff to be no more than "pseudo-literary exhibitionism," the product of a burned-out mind and of little significance to anyone but academics doing studies on the evil effects of narcotics. William F. Buckley Jr., writing in this week's New York Times Book Review, predictably attributes Thompson's work to "a very nearly unrelieved distemper," and comments that he "elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral...
LOUIS MASOTTI, political scientist (Northwestern): Ralph Nader. Recalls, product guarantees, truth in packaging, truth in lending, almost all these things were a spillover of the challenge of this one person. Another is Barry Commoner. He has raised our consciousness about the environment and ecological system. I might have chosen Jerry Brown, if he had turned out to be more consistent and positive...
...doesn't Austin bid for a Government subsidy to give Samson away, much as milk is handed out in school lunch programs? Anybody knows that if Coke tried for that, the milk lobby would raise hell. The company also has to be careful about trumpeting the product as a good-for-you drink because consumers-particularly the poor-might be suspicious...
...good news, then, is that a powerful marketer has come up with a cheap and tasty product that can do much to whip malnutrition. The frustrating fact, however, is that Austin & Co. feel constrained to go slow by politics and the realities of the marketplace...
...economic field, Lopez Portillo's performance has been quite creditable. By holding down public spending and wages, he has been able to stabilize the erratic peso, slow inflation, reverse the flight of capital and stimulate private investment. After several sluggish years, Mexico's gross national product is now increasing by about 6% annually. Lopez Portillo has also promoted a certain degree of political liberalization, although his Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) continues to dominate Mexican politics as it has for the past 50 years. To no one's surprise, the P.R.I, swept up some 70% of the popular...