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Productivity is roughly defined as the amount that the average worker can produce in any given hour.

The Supreme Court has defined commercial speech as communication of the “terms of an actual or potential transaction” that has an “economic motivation”—for example, credit-card solicitations.

Now Mr. Cuomo, 67, is running as an independent, struggling to define himself as something more than “at least I’m not the other guy.”

For the most part, the award has become a generalized tribute to activists for human rights and democracy or symbols of progress, at least as those things are defined by a committee of upper-crust Norwegians.

Her portrayal of the feisty, eccentric, charming title character would define Keaton as an actor for the rest of her career.