Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very evident that President Nixon is guilty of all charges, but they certainly do not warrant impeachment. What a gross waste of time and money...
...conscience and pride and responsibility of innumerable people and numerous institutions that combined to assert that 1) there was (and is) a norm of official behavior that is recognized and respected by all Americans and 2) the President's departure from this norm was sufficiently gross and calculated to require an extraordinary and unprecedented remedy...
...forced an investigation. No one defended Nixon's tax deduction for his vice-presidential papers valued at $576,000-especially since that deduction was found to be based on a backdated deed. Even all-out Defender Delbert Latta said that Nixon had been guilty of "bad judgment and gross negligence." Mayne called it "a very sorry example... of American citizenship...
...nation's output of goods and services is likely to show a decline for all of 1974. Testifying to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, Kenneth Rush, the President's economic spokesman, predicted that during the year's second half the rate of expansion in real gross national product will probably fall below the 2% to 4% figure that had previously been forecast by the Administration. That would mean a drop in G.N.P. for the entire year. Economic growth has already declined at an annual rate of 4.2% in the first half. Part of the reason...
...abroad ($6.5 billion) than the usual international champions, the Americans (who spent $5.4 billion). Though West Germany has economic problems, it also has millions of highly affluent people who continue to display an exceptional wanderlust. On the other hand, the U.S. this year will lead all other countries in gross income derived from tourism, an expected $3.25 billion. Indeed, Europeans who have the means find some of the best bargains in North America. Some 120,000 West Germans are expected to visit Canada. Through May, 2.2 million tourists came to the U.S., 16% more than last year...