Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down on concert schedules, to cut-down the players' salaries, and to program concerts to appeal to a wide audience, thereby foregoing the lesser-known though equally deserving works. The Boston Symphony is fortunate in having the satellite Boston Pops (which is composed primarily of Symphony players) to gross a huge annual sum. Through record sales (Arthur Fiedler has sold more records than any conductor in the world), television appearances, cocktail longesque "Evening At Pops", Esplanade concerts, Arthur Fiedler wrist watches and all manner of red-white-and-blue paraphernalia honoring Boston's "Most Outstanding Citizen", as Fiedler was names...
Pretty terrible? No, just terribly misleading. Actually, the growth picture is bright. Although the overall figures do not reflect the fact, the U.S. economy was in a true slump only in September and October. There was a strong rebound in the gross national product in November and December, led by an upsurge in spending by individual consumers. The fourth-quarter G.N.P. would have appeared much healthier except for a statistical accident. The jump in consumer buying was not matched right away by more spending by businessmen because they were still selling goods they had on the shelf...
...lawyers because the murderer, says Schiller, "liked my style and sense of humor." Next he made a deal with Playboy and signed on Freelance Writer Barry Farrell to write Gilmore's story from 36 tapes of conversations with him. Schiller hopes the eventual book and movie will gross up to $10 million, with a $100,000 profit for himself. Provided, of course, that he finds a buyer. No one doubts he will...
That snippet of typically Israeli black humor rings mighty true. The inflation rate in Israel during 1976 averaged 42%. The foreign debt stands at $10.7 billion-which is roughly the same as Israel's gross national product. By the most generous reckoning the G.N.P. grew by 2.8% last year. And the unemployment rate, which in the past hardly ever rose above 3%, is creeping up toward 5%. Small wonder that the economy is a central issue in this spring's special elections forced by the resignation of Premier Yitzhak Rabin (TIME...
...rating, which is just what Dayton had intended. To him, the G does not stand for general audiences (as the Motion Picture Association of America says it does in its rating system), it stands for gold. Dayton, who also broke in as a director on the movie, expects to gross $20 million from Hawk and recover its $1.2 million production cost in about a month...