Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are others: James Fallows, 28, was the editor of the Washington Monthly at $20,000 before he was appointed Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...
...marketplace. It is that notion in action that accounts for the stunning fact that the U.S. burns up such a disproportionate 32% share of the entire world's energy (while also turning out, it is fair to remember, a similarly disproportionate 31% share of the world's gross product...
...nicotine." a freshman who wished not to be identified said yesterday. The American Cancer Society's failure to publicize the smoke-out on college campuses, may have lessened Harvard participation in the "Smoke-Out," Joseph Paiva, director of public education for the society, said yesterday. "It was a gross oversight on our part," he added...
...travel to museums in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Boston and Philadelphia into 1979, includes very nearly all of the major examples of early Irish art that have remained in Irish collections, a loan of unparalleled generosity. Its only fault, a too common one at the Metropolitan, is the installation-a gross Tiffany-in-Vegas effort, with each item so harshly spotlit that exaggerated shadows break up the intricate gold surfaces, eliding the exquisitely delicate transitions of depth and texture which were the very essence of the Celtic jewelers' art. Everything looks as if it were for sale...
...this were simply a chase film, watching Alain Delon's weak face fall apart and his well-clothed body scuttle might be just passable fun. Since it is a film about Jews being shipped to death camps in cattle cars, it is a gross and nearly unbelievable lapse of taste and artistic intelligence...