Word: gross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening when I walked through Harvard Square to see the huge poster in your window of Oliver North, proclaiming "Lt. Col. Oliver North: a Real American." Choosing to sell this poster showed bad judgment. Choosing to so proudly and prominently display it showed more than bad judgment--it showed gross moral insensitivity...
...incidents have very different causes, even if they both represent gross negligence. The first was clearly a case of an irresponsible driver unable to control an unsafe situation, which she herself had created. The crash raised questions about PBH and the safety measures it insisted upon (or didn't insist upon) when transporting young children from the inner cities to day camps activities. Indeed, the incident signalled serious mismanagement within the North Yard's PBH headquarters...
Faced with a flood of malpractice cases and notably generous juries, South Florida doctors are afflicted with the highest insurance costs in the country. A Dade County neurosurgeon, for example, might now have to shell out up to $220,000. "Our doctors are paying close to 40% of their gross income for insurance," says Dr. Richard Glatzer, president of the Dade County Medical Association. Governor Bob Martinez has pledged a special session of the state legislature to address the issue, but the prescription promises to be far more complicated than two aspirins...
...Americans played a key role in drafting charters for the defeated nations of Japan and West Germany. The Japanese charter declares that the country will never again make war or maintain an army, navy or air force. As a result, Japan spends only about 1% of its gross national product on defense, freeing the economy for more productive purposes. Ironically, the U.S. is pressing the Japanese to boost defense outlays...
Whether they fly coach or first class, Yanks are landing in all corners of Europe. In Italy, where tourism accounts for 7% of the gross national product, the splashing Fountain of Trevi in Rome is once more filling up with the coins tossed by sentimental U.S. tourists. The Swiss state railways report that Americans planning vacations in Switzerland bought twice as many rail passes in May as they did a year earlier. The airline SAS reports that tickets from the U.S. to Scandinavia are "basically sold...