Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hungate, "we took the same oath to uphold the Constitution which Richard M. Nixon took. If we are to be faithful to our oaths, we must find him faithless in his." Iowa Democrat Edward Mezvinsky expressed a similar thought, arguing that Nixon should be brought "to account for the gross abuse of office," and that "we must all ask ourselves, if we do not, who will...
...nation's real output of goods and services has already suffered two consecutive quarterly declines, and last week New York's First National City Bank reported that the economy is gripped by not just a temporary slowdown but by "a pervasive recession." The bank predicted that real gross national product will probably show a drop for all of 1974, instead of the small gain forecast by the Administration...
...city, 31-concert comeback tour was announced, the 30,375-seat Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, N.J., sold out in less than a day, a Ticketron record. Before opening night in Seattle, advance sales for the tour-at an average of $7.50 a ticket-projected a $10 million gross (compared to the $5.7 million grossed by Dylan last winter), which would make C. S. N. & Y. the most commercially successful tour in the history of U.S. music. The group's share of the gate: a whopping $4.5 million...
...defame or manipulate Ellsberg." The result was an unflattering portrait that emphasized "strong, although fluctuant, emotional attachments" and "sudden and extreme shifts in loyalty and enthusiasm." The new report referred to Ellsberg as "a very intelligent man" and denied that he was "emotionally disturbed in a psychotic or gross manner." It briefly mentioned his sex life and two years of psychoanalysis, but its focus was on traumatic childhood experiences?especially a car accident at 15 in which his mother and sister were killed?to explain his alleged psychological instability...
...month, or at a scorching annual rate of 12%. The Commerce Department reported that the nation's output of goods and services, after dropping 7% in the first quarter, fell another 1.2% in the second. Though according to the most popular definition two consecutive quarters of decline in gross national product add up to recession, many economists do not believe that the slide has reached that stage...