Word: gross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the truth is that given Mavens' high operating costs in its Harvard Square location, unless the deli substantially increased its gross revenues and hence its profits, its doors would have closed in just a few more weeks. Notwithstanding its great popularity and healthy crowds, Mavens operated at a substantial deficit from the day it opened until the day it changed its orthodox kosher policy and decided to open on Friday nights and Saturdays. The change was made not to increase profits, but to eliminate the substantial losses that threatened to deprive Cambridge residents and Harvard students of the city...
...Gross, Mr. Smolin...
...surface, the news from the Commerce Department looked bad. Showing the effects of a still high trade deficit and this summer's drought, the U.S. gross national product expanded at an annual rate of only 2.2% in the third quarter, down from 3.0% in the previous three months and the weakest performance in nearly two years...
...suppose we ought to differentiate between what we pay and what we get. This country spends 11% of its gross national product on health care. The industrial world on average spends 3 1/2% of its GNP. And I've looked at every measure of health I can look at, and there's little evidence that our health is any better. The Japanese spend even less than that as a percentage of GNP, and their health would appear to be better than ours...
Critics charged that the moves threatened the rights of all British citizens. "Violence cannot be defeated by injustice," warned Sarah Spencer, general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties. The government responded that terrorists have been thwarting justice by "the gross, determined and persistent abuse" of the right to silence...