Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charisma attracted enough closed-circuit TV viewers to recoup the $12 million invested in the bout-good news for Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. who personally plowed $11.4 million into the match. Attendance at U.S. theaters, however, was far lower than hoped for, and the gross take will fall far short of the $40 million goal. The fighters' purses-$5 million each-were guaranteed in advance...
...Eastern Europe, where table tennis is the sport of commissars. It is smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing you must do is quit school...
...collection of better-and-worse gags. There is nothing in it that could possibly offend the comfortable businessman in from Brookline for a wild evening in the Square. Perhaps the funniest bit is about a youngman who takes his incredibly uncouth date to a fancy French restaurant. Even honest gross-out humor like this (it ends with her throwing up) seems funnier than "mild" political satire. During the Ford routines, for example, we're laughing at a stupid man, any stupid man, and the fact that he's President of the United States--and that that's the funniest thing...
...Michel Durafour indicates, the government will grant $220 million to set up an emergency fund. The fund will be supported by contributions financed 80% by employers and 20% by workers through higher payroll deductions. Any worker discharged because of economic force majeure can collect from the fund 90% of gross wages for a full twelve months, roughly equivalent to the take-home pay he or she would have received on the job. Government inspectors supposedly will make sure that the layoffs truly result from recession, and not from bad management by the company or poor performance by the worker...
...family of four, for instance, earning $20,000 and itemizing deductions equal to a typical 17% of gross income, now owes $2,660 in federal income tax. According to the Treasury Department, the surcharge would raise that by only $42, or 1.6%. A similar family with gross income of $50,000 owes $11,465 in federal tax, which the surcharge would increase by 4.2%, or $482. A single person earning $15,000 would have his tax raised...