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Product in this collective sense, used without an article, has none of the quantitative, formative, or even poetic associations that the word had otherwise acquired--as in "gross national product," "a product of Groton and Harvard," or "the fruit and product of his labors past" (Dryden).
Look back at the claims that were made for television during its formative years, and they sound a lot like the claims being made now for the Internet.
There are those who will sneer that a race which owes its very existence to the ingurgitation of massive quantities of porridge during its formative years is capable of speaking in no other way.
The cost breakdown was as follows: formative research to learn about malaria treatment issues ($2000); design and production of 1500 shopkeeper job aids and 1500 client posters ($3000); training of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants, including t-shirts, caps and receipt books ($2800); and monitoring of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants by the DHMT ($500).
His friendships with the likes of writer and critic Georges Bataille, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson were formative in ways that he either fails to note or misleadingly acknowledges.