Word: gross
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While the gross national product has increased-by an annual average of 7.26% in the past three years-inflation has grown far faster, reaching a staggering 40% in Manila during 1974. Real wages have probably declined for working-class urban Filipinos. The 1976 peso has shrunk to a mere 34% of its 1967 value...
...ceremony marked the takeover by a new state-owned holding company, Petroleós de Venezuela (Petrovén) of the nation's oil industry, which in 1974 accounted for 50% of Venezuela's gross national product, 86% of its revenues and 97% of its exports. During the debates that led up to nationalization, the government shunned emotional rhetoric and consistently rejected far-left demands that it eject 21 foreign oil companies without compensation. For their part, the companies, headed by Exxon, accepted with only minimal grumbling a shade over $1 billion-10% of it in cash...
...playing for the New York Sets in the World Team Tennis league and publishing her monthly womenSport magazine (circ. 200,000). With additional income from advertising endorsements, the King Enterprises group?the financial empire that Billie Jean reigns over with her very supportive husband Larry?will gross more than $1.5 million this year. "I lived on $90 a month as an amateur and I won't forget that"?or repeat...
...nearly as large as the total of all other private contributions. Significantly, one-fifth of the $12.5 billion goes to such causes as schools, hospitals and social work. The commission also reports a dramatic difference in religious giving between the rich and the not-so-rich. Those with adjusted gross incomes of $10,000 or under give two-thirds of their charitable gifts to religious organizations, compared with a scant 27% for those in the $50,000-to-$200,000 range, and 7% for those who make even more...
...past two months, ads have been splashed throughout the press proclaiming that King Kong will love and die again-not once but twice. In early January both Universal and Paramount will start production on $12 million remakes of the 1933 classic. Universal believes that the film will gross somewhere between Jaws and Earthquake. Paramount's director Dino de Laurentiis declaims boldly that King Kong "is still the most exciting original motion picture event of all time...