Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gross national product has grown not at all for two years, while the population continues to increase by about 15 million every year. So the standard of living for the multitude has actually declined. In a glaringly pennywise, pound-foolish move, the government decided several months ago to cut back on its family planning, birth control and sterilization programs. Though land-reform laws have been passed, they have been carried out spottily...
...Side Manhattan town house, has 1,800 subscribers who pay $125 a year for his four-page Janeway Service, and 350 subscribers who pay $550 a year for the single-page Janeway Letter plus the right to phone questions directly to Janeway. His two weekly publications alone yield a gross income of $417,000. He correctly predicted the market plunges of 1962 and 1970, but was prominently quoted as forecasting that the Dow Jones industrials would plummet to 500 last year (the year's low was actually 889, and the high 1036). Janeway now argues that there...
...being discovered by this investigating apparatus would deter would-be conspirators from illegal actions. Hopefully, this Court would never have to be called in to "find facts" about another election scandal--no matter how big or small. But since there may be those who fail to learn from the gross mistakes of others, we should eliminate the possibility of being caught with our pants down a second time...
...countrymen, St. Laurent reluctantly left a successful Quebec law practice in 1941 to become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province, and the country took an increasingly large role as an "honest broker" in international affairs...
Growth is slackening. After subtracting the effects of inflation, the real rate of growth in the gross national product was only 2.6%-down steeply from more than 8% in each of the two preceding quarters. The 2.6% figure was the lowest since the final quarter of 1970, when the economy was in recession. Herbert Stein, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, simply does not believe his eyes...