Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, Charles D. "Chuck" Lewis opened the Copper Mountain area last month. Lewis, a onetime Vail executive, first got a land-use permit from the U.S. Forest Service, which controls most of the mountains in the West, and issues permits for a percentage of the area's gross receipts or fixed assets. Then he raised $5,000,000 from a Denver real estate developer and the United Bank of Denver, which finances more than half of all ski-area development in Colorado. Typically, Lewis' executives are specialists; the construction manager has several engineering degrees, the mountain manager...
...about-to-be-voted-on bills (the weekly "whip package," which includes the next week's scheduled action, committee reports and copies of the bills, including short summaries of their contents), and how bills are numbered (consecutively, except for one each session introduced by Iowa Congressman H.R. Gross, which carries the number 144 since that number equals a gross...
...need, gobble daily doses of vitamins and other dietary supplements that they believe hold the key to good health. Sales of vitamins have been increasing. A decade ago, vitamins brought the nation's pharmaceutical houses a total of about $300 million; this year, vitamin manufacturers are estimated to gross almost $500 million...
...Federal budget, drafted by OMB, forms 20 per cent of the gross national product, However, Weinberger stressed that governmental control of the economy is limited, as only $40 billion of the budget (30 per cent) is subject to administrative decision...
...dint of hard work and unromantic planning, Spain is doggedly building itself into an industrial power. The gross national product has grown an average 6.1% annually since 1964, and at $32.2 billion is 13th in the non-Communist world, just behind Sweden and ahead of The Netherlands. Per capita income has surpassed $1,000 per year, up from $317 in 1960; that is still well behind the Common Market countries but light-years ahead of a prewar standard of living that compared to Bulgaria and Portugal. Spain is the world's fourth largest shipbuilder, ranks 13th in steel production...