Word: gross
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Part of that news remains as bad as ever. Testifying to the Senate Budget Committee last week, Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economist, forecast that the real gross national product would drop at an annual rate of more than 10% in the current quarter. That would be the fifth straight quarterly decline as well as the sharpest contraction for any quarter since World War II. Industrial production in February alone was off 3%, making five successive months of decline. Greenspan, who had previously predicted that unemployment would peak at 8.5%, now said that it would climb higher than...
Among those problems was January's .8% drop in the average number of weekly hours worked and 1.2% decline in real gross average weekly earnings. Another twelve major labor areas were added to the list of places with "substantial"-6% or more-unemployment. The only comfort was provided by a rise of .6% in the consumer price index, the lowest increase since April 1974-an indication that the recession is slowing the rate of inflation...
Shampoo is a problem. At its best moments it is crafty, funny and high-spirited, but sometimes-even simultaneously-it is wormy and disingenuous. Just when a hard edge is crucial, the people who made it fall away from their best instincts and strongest insights into gross sentimentality...
Rebecca High is a senior living in Dunster House. years of our own lives and recognize the gross injustice of educating wealthy women first. The current ratio of male to female undergraduates, never mind of male to female professors, shows that those really committed to women's education and equality remain a minority...
...Henry Gross: Plug Me Into Some thing (A &M). An alumnus of the Sha Na Nas, Gross gathers a few of his friends including Terry Cashman, Tom my West and even his pet Irish setter for a high-voltage round of rural rock...