Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN ASIA: There are no countries that display greater disparity in economic development than Australia and her neighbors. Australia certainly can and should do a certain amount toward decreasing this disparity. We have a Gross National Product equal to that of all the countries between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. Those countries have 20 times our population. Developing the resources of these countries is something that should be, must be, solved in a short term, that is, a generation...
Clearly, Nixon felt no embarrassment about the harshness of his program. Still, he might have been embarrassed by his own rhetoric. To say that "Americans in the last decade were often told that the criminal was not responsible for his crimes . . . but that society was responsible" is a gross oversimplification of the view that true crime control requires dealing with root causes. And when he refers to "our returning prisoners of war" as examples of the sort of "tough moral fiber" that will help bring about a nation that is "free from crime," he is guilty of both irrelevance...
...think they can pay the money . . . Candy, my angel. Do you want to come to dinner Thursday? Here's who I'm having: Bogdanovich, Evans, maybe Nicholson . . .Oh Bobby, hi, sweetheart. You want us to negotiate a deal right now? $500,000 against 10% of the gross-no. $250,000 plus...
...union was the United Auto Workers, an organization that regularly increases the liquidity of its strike fund by selling off gilt-edged securities. The company was General Motors, whose annual sales would constitute a gross national product bigger than that of, say, Switzerland or South Africa if it were a country instead of the largest business corporation on earth. When the U.A.W. struck GM for two grim months in 1970, the U.S. economy nearly stopped dead in its tracks...
...Movement for Economic Justice, a group formed last year tries to inform the American public of the "gross inequalities in the system" and thus hopefully incite them to militant protest, Wiley said...