Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about our frustrations and call on us to turn inward." He suggested that McGovern was bent on making the U.S. "the second strongest nation in the world" through cuts in the defense budget. He claimed that McGovern welfare reforms would add 82 million people to the welfare rolls-a gross exaggeration. At the same time, Nixon assailed McGovern's guaranteed-income proposals with the claim that "every politician's promise has a price-the American taxpayer pays the bill...
...Stars. During the fight over future delegate apportionment, the networks were virtually identical. The dispute itself, predictable from the start, was given gross coverage as the networks attempted to pump some suspense into the conflict. Av Westin, executive producer of ABC's Evening News, later confessed, "If you're covering fires and it is the only fire in town, you cover it, no matter how small...
Tough Challenge. Xerox clearly faces the greater problem. It is the smaller company-though size in this league is strictly relative; Xerox's 1971 sales of nearly $2 billion and profit of $213 million would compare favorably with almost anything except IBM's figures of $8.3 billion gross and $1.1 billion net. Xerox also confronts a tougher technical and financial challenge. Computer technology is much more sophisticated than copier-making expertise, and computer manufacturing is vastly more expensive. Moreover, most computers are leased to customers rather than sold, and it takes a long time for the manufacturer...
...about the delegates' spending habits, but they agreed that both blue-jeaned Democrats and custom-tailored Republicans were tightwads. Doc Baker estimates that each Republican spent $35 a day in Miami Beach, and each Democrat $30. To hear some retailers gripe, the Democratic figure at least is a gross overestimate. The average Democrat, grumbles one businessman, "brought a set of underwear and a $20 bill with him and did not change either one." Merchants who relied on the Republicans to be big spenders were also disappointed. "We will be lucky if we break even," says Sheila Roth...
Adjusted family income is defined on the Federal income tax form as 90 per cent of gross income minus a $675 deduction for each dependent, allowing some leeway for families with more than one child to support. For example, a family with an income of $19,000 and two children would qualify, as would a family with an income of $21,000 and four children...