Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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With increasing envy and bitterness, Polish citizens have noted the different situations in neighboring lands. Hungary, for example, has been making steady progress with a "New Economic Mechanism" that introduced capitalistic profit-and-loss into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never...
...month but two, industrial production sank 5.3%. Almost one-quarter of the nation's industrial capacity lay idle, creating a large gap between the actual and the potential growth of the economy, if its resources of manpower and plant had been fully utilized.* Retail sales foundered, and corporate profit margins retreated to their lowest level in twelve years. The nation's real output of goods and services declined about .2%. That happened because the 5.3% price inflation more than offset the 5.1% growth of gross national product...
...owner tells them to vote. Third, Wilcox County is a dry county with a thriving moonshine business. Incumbent white officeholders need only to threaten to bust the moonshine business during their lame-duck period if they are not reelected. Blacks and whites alike depend on moonshine for constimption and profit. So this type of threat is quite effective...
...facsimile re-creation of a Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers and Jan Van Eyck...
Bryce Harlow, Counsellor to Nixon, could have the job if he wished, but his former employer, Procter & Gamble, wants him to return as a lobbyist. At 54, Harlow has his stake in Procter & Gamble's retirement fund, and profit-sharing and stock-option benefits. Other possibilities are Texas Congressman George Bush, who was defeated last month for the Senate, and Kansas Senator Robert Dole. Nixon's choice will indicate to what extent the White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might...