Word: gross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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QUALITY OF CARE is moving toward center stage among issues in national health care policy. With American health care now consuming nearly 11 percent of our gross national product--far less than in many industrialized countries with equally competent health care systems--purchasers of care have steadily increased the pressure to contain costs...
...Ronald Reagan's presidency, there is no need to bicker about the relative venality of the various crimes his Administration committed. The President has broken faith with the American people. He swore to uphold and to defend the Constitution but instead led his Administration on a course that shows gross disrespect for the rule of law. As disastrous as President Reagan's tenure has been, the legacy of his Administration will not be its short-sighted policies, but a perversion of the fundamental process of government that will not soon be forgotten...
...Layoffs, shutdowns, production cutbacks and plummeting profits have infected virtually every one of Japan's manufacturing industries. While service businesses, including banks and insurance companies, are flourishing, one in eight major manufacturers reported a loss for the six-month period that ended last September. Economists predict that Japan's gross national product will grow by just 2.3% for the fiscal year ending in March 1987, the lowest level since 1974, when GNP dropped by .4%. Even the promise of lifetime employment, a cornerstone of the country's social structure, is crumbling. Says Toshio Isago, an executive vice president at Nippon...
...Watergate break-in have nothing to do with any similarity between the two crimes. In fact, on one level, Watergate doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the Contra funding. Watergate involved petty squabbles between political parties while the Contra funding was a gross usurpation of Congress' power of the purse, a patent violation of the Constitution...
Christian Democratic leaders have attacked Il Caso Moro as a "gross distortion." Nonetheless, Italian moviegoers are flocking to the film...