Word: production
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...proposed institute would not be the first at the Ed School to deal with public policy issues, Murphy said. "We have had several policy research institutes," he said. "The product of their work is advice and we [the Ed School] are in the business of trying to improve practice...
...sometimes felt that because photographs are the product of a mechanical tool, a camera, that some of the great pictures made by photojournalists are simply lucky shots, accidents. One day when Edward Steichen, the late dean of American photography, was taking a group of visitors through an exhibition of pictures by photojournalists, he was asked, "If you were to take all the lucky pictures, the accidents, out of this exhibition, how many pictures would you have left?" Steichen pondered that, and then he said, "Not many, perhaps. But have you ever thought how many great accidents have been made...
Although there is no question that higher education prices are high--and similar from school to school--this is not necessarily a product of overt collusion. Schools could very well raise their prices to match those of other institutions without explicitly setting a price. In addition, there are many fixed costs that colleges must bear, such as competitive salaries for professors and making up for the appalling lack of federal funding for everything from financial aid to necessary research...
BORIS GREBENSHIKOV: RADIO SILENCE (Columbia). The title is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Grebenshikov, a dubious product of glasnost, sounds like David Bowie on Bosco as he thrashes his way -- in English -- through twelve pompous rock anthems as dense as the Iron Curtain but not quite so penetrable...
Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...