Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began by reciting a veritable litany of "illegal, unconstitutional and gross" acts performed by the Executive branch since the beginning of the 1972 campaign. Then he came to his main point: that the Administration had done its level best to subvert the Ervin committee hearings as recently as this April, even while announcing publicly its intention of cooperating fully...
...partisan comment." Far from being ready to switch parties, Weicker said, "I think I express the feelings of the 42 other Republican Senators that I work with, and the Republicans of the state of Connecticut, and in fact the Republican Party, far better than these illegal, unconstitutional and gross acts which have been committed over the past several months by various individuals." Republicans, Weicker insisted, do not cover up, do not threaten, do not commit illegal acts and, "God knows. Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed" but rather as "human beings...
...have almost no place for passions," declared Argentine President Héctor Cámpora in a nation-wide television address last week. That, as it turned out, was a gross overstatement...
...economy's growth will continue to slow for the rest of the year, but the expansion was so rapid earlier that the gross national product will probably post a real gain of 6% for the year-not counting inflation. A softer economy could aid the Administration's belatedly hardened price-control program, which can use all the help it can get. A failure to beat inflation now would lead to the worst of both worlds next year: recession and runaway prices at the same time...
...wonders of the world. Erratic and (when coping with Western art) often bizarre in taste, Japanese collectors have become the Texans of the Far East, splurging up to 2000% more than real market value on second-rate Chagalls and Modiglianis, and giving the still embryonic Tokyo market an estimated gross of $1 billion a year on paintings alone. No wonder, then, that Tokyo has attracted a number of big Western dealers, including the most formidable of all-Marlborough Fine...