Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toadies, opportunists, cowards and intimidated individuals who possibly will be more obedient than the Hitler Youth." The Social Democratic leadership now wishes that it had never heard of the measure, and has sponsored new, more liberal guidelines. Admits a chastened Brandt: "I erred at the time ... There have been gross deviations and grotesque abuses...
...Gramm is an example of Glyndebourne's inspired casting as Falstaff. He acknowledges that his voice lacks Verdi's special melodic tessitura. But its dramatic subtleties and Gramm's own worldly manner answer Producer Jean-Pierre Ponelle's demand for a Falstaff who is "no gross giant" and fits into the rumbustious Elizabethan world he recreates. Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff...
...being stingy with its aid to developing countries. But the U.S. is far from the worst offender. Among the 17 members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. is tied for twelfth place with Japan (both countries devote 0.25% of their gross national product to such projects). Sweden is first (0.72%). The unchallenged occupants of 17th and last place are the Swiss (0.14%), even though they rank as the richest people among the world's industrialized countries, with a per capita income...
...government's concern about birth control is based upon tough economic realities: the per capita share of gross national income is falling because of the ever-rising population (currently estimated at 612 million and increasing at the rate of 12 million per year). Nonetheless, India's recent gains have been impressive. Last year, for instance, largely because of the high prices of imported food, fertilizer and oil, the country suffered a record trade deficit of $1.2 billion. Now, as a result of an intensive campaign of exploration, some petroleum experts believe India can be self-supporting in crude...
...wrapped within a larger and far more complicated one: How did Michael die? And why? Their natural suspicions, heightened by confusion among the responses to their voluminous correspondence, led them to conclude that the Army, in particular Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, Michael's commanding officer, was willfully covering up gross negligence by the U.S. artillery unit which fired the fatal "friendly" shells which fell short...