Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic recovery continued to accelerate as first-quarter statistics showed an annual increase of 7.5% in the gross national product. Almost as heartening, the annual inflation rate declined to 3.7%, and although it is expected to creep up to perhaps 6%, it is still a far cry from the 9.7% rate reached in 1974. Detroit was forecasting a 10.5 million car year, the second best ever. Profits were up, retail sales were high, and even the long depressed housing industry was on the rise again. Unemployment remained at an unacceptable 7.5%, but this was a promising drop from...
...Neil D. Gross '77, Adams House representative to the CHUL, told the meeting that "flexibility is more important" than credibility and CHUL should "maximize student's freedom" instead of forcing them to remain in a House...
...aspect of pornography (or, if you will, erotic fantasy material) that is seldom mentioned is the myth that men regard sex as a strictly physical act, while women need "romance" to tolerate it. As a result, sexual fantasies for men keep getting more and more "gross" in attempts to escape the "female" force of emotion. And although there is a growing tide of erotic fantasy material for women, most of it is still steeped in the mushy, false-romantic mode that women have always been conditioned to like. The need for emotion and physical pleasure exists...
...ironic that after spending so many hours researching the story of gross misuse of power, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein also are guilty of this very thing [April 5]. Perhaps theirs is the greater guilt. Political power passes on. The power of the written word endures for all time...
...background of the campaign debate over economics is a recovery that is progressing faster than most economists had expected. The Government this week will release its estimate of first-quarter real gross national product (total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation); it is expected to show a 6% to 7% gain at an annual rate. Retail sales jumped 2.8% in March, on top of a 1.6% rise in February; auto sales in the first ten days of April leaped 33% above the 1975 period. Industrial production rose by only .6% in March, but the January and February advances...