Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their massive campaign, the Republicans plan to raise some $35 million, and more than half of that amount is already in hand. Nixon's chief fund raiser, Maurice Stans, is a master of the hard sell. He tells contributors that they should give at least 1% of their gross income to the campaign. Says he: "That's a low price to pay every four years to ensure that the Executive Branch of the Government is in the right hands." Such was Stans' zeal that he raised more than $ 10 million before the new campaign law went into...
...first effort is obviously for the boys. The graphics are good and reminiscent of Playboy, the nudes largely European and evocative of Penthouse. There are features on French wines and women, fashions in leather and rough-country motorbiking. The oddest item is a gross featurette that shows animals copulating. Overall, the first issue seems a bit sophomoric in its straining for sensuality...
EXPANDING THE ECONOMY AND CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT. The gross national product lately has been running at $96 billion ahead of a year ago, a very healthy 9.2% gain. But unemployment has dropped only from 6.1% last summer to 5.5% now. Rating: superior on expansion but unacceptable on jobs...
Last summer, according to one estimate, Americans were so strapped that one out of every four chose to forgo a vacation altogether. Now, for all the corrosions of inflation, food prices and property taxes, money seems a bit looser. Some major economic indicators are up again-the second-quarter gross national product registered the best three-month gain in six years. As the squeeze lessened, airlines were reporting new records of passenger travel. The highways glistened with a tidal flow of Americans getting away; truck drivers complained that the roads were glutted with campers. State parks and national forests were...
...earnest in 1965, nosed out A. & P. as the biggest supermarketeer. Determined to recapture its dominant position, A. & P. has converted 3,700 of its 4,200 stores to WEO, and by fall all of them will be discounting. The company trimmed its prices so low that its gross profit margin (before taxes and operating expenses) has slid to an estimated 12%, v. about 14% for most discount food chains and 21% for conventional supermarkets...