Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occupational hazards--in terms of lost wages, medical expenses, insurance claims, productions delays, lost time of co-workers and equipment damage--was estimated by the National Safety Council at $15 billion during 1974--approximately one per cent of the GNP. This figure, moreover, is likely to be a gross understatement of even the direct costs to the GNP of both occupational injuries and illness...
...least he was mentioned. The name heard hardly at all was Ken Kesey's. Unacknowledged and unhonored, Kesey maintains that he has also been ripped off. He has filed suit claiming that he is entitled to 5% of the film's gross receipts and a cool $869,000 for damages. He has received, he says, a $10,000 advance for a screenplay that was not used, and has become financially hard-pressed. Kesey, his wife Faye and some friends watched the Oscars on TV at their Oregon farm, noting that, save for a passing mention by Forman, nobody...
...late Joseph C. Wilson, builder of Xerox Corp., was fond of observing that if his company continued to grow at the meteoric rates of the 1960s, its sales would soon exceed the U.S. gross national product. The implication of that self-evident absurdity: Xerox's growth would have to slow; and it has now come true. Last year the company posted record revenues of $4 billion, but its profits suffered their first decline -a gossamer 1.8% before write-offs, to $342 million-since 1951, when Xerox was a small photographic-paper maker, known as the Haloid Co., in Rochester...
...articulate, self-deprecating perennial juvenile ("I am the furthest thing from a mature person") who overstuffed his plain newsprint magazine with tales of his sexual obsessions, failures with women and humiliating need to buy sex from prostitutes because of his overwhelming unattractiveness. Screw (circulation: 125,000) features raunchy humor, gross sex, porn-movie reviews and endless columns of ads for prostitutes and willing amateurs. The formula, imitated by several other sheets, tapped an astonishing market of the sexually hungry, lonely and perverse, who, Goldstein says, have a right to their pleasures, just like the rest of humanity. His latest effort...
...pornographers: voyeur sex is enormously profitable. Hardcore 8-mm. home-movie reels, which cost a dollar or two to produce, retail for $16. A peep show minimovie machine, which shows a customer about two minutes of porn for 25¢ or the full twelve-minute reel for $1.50, can gross more than $10,000 per year; most sex shops have several machines. A hard-core porno movie for theatrical showing can be made for $15,000 to $50,000 and return millions...