Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought Animal House was gross? Try mud fights. Cheryl Ladd emerges from one in her upcoming ABC-TV fantasy about a South Dakota girl who succeeds in Hollywood. In it, Ladd and several dancing friends are fooling around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event...
...huge purchase of U.S. grain by Russia. As Nick Eberstadt of Harvard's Center for Population Studies noted in the New York Review of Books, Feb. 19, 1976, "India could never have made this kind of purchase: it would have cost 3 per cent of its gross national product, almost 25 per cent of its annual government revenue...
Discourage Inflation and Encourage Stability. Limit the long-term increase in federal subsidies, Government benefits and budget transfer payments to the size of the real increase in economic growth. That is, if the gross national product after inflation rises 3% in a year, these federal payments may rise no more than 3%. Meanwhile, limit the growth in the money supply to a noninflationary 4% to 6% annually, year after year...
...confirm their wishes-about pregnancy. Says one proponent of the do-it-yourself trend: "It gives me the opportunity to find out whether I am pregnant in the privacy of my home, to get accustomed to the idea of being pregnant long before I need to go through a gross examination in a doctor's office...
Popular misunderstanding takes many forms. One false notion, which undercuts political support for increasing the aid effort, is that the U.S. is still a leader in the field it pioneered. Not so. In the early 1960s the U.S. spent up to .5% of its gross national product on foreign aid but today allocates only .27%. Sweden gives 1.01% of its G.N.P., and Denmark donates .6%. Thirteen nations, including France, Canada, Belgium, Britain, West Germany and Austria give a larger share than the U.S. Says Gilligan: "Last year the people of the U.S. lost more money at the gambling tables...