Word: gross
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even in purely economic terms, the prospect that the new General Secretary faces is daunting. Growth in national income, the closest Soviet equivalent to gross national product, was a respectable but disappointing 2.6% last year (in contrast to a GNP rise of 6.9% in the U.S.). That figure was down from 3.1% in 1983 and only about half the size of gains registered in the 1960s. Worse yet, the growth rate overstates how well the economy provides the things Soviet citizens want and need: personal consumption of goods and services per capita in the Soviet Union is less than...
...grade- point average, and Gib may actually fall for her because "she happens to be an excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...
Barry Goldstein, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, called Reynolds' efforts "a gross misallocation of prosecutorial resources." A fight is shaping up in New York State, where officials have said they will abide by a court order establishing numerical hiring goals for the state police...
...healthier pace in 1985. That was the optimistic forecast of TIME's Board of Economists when it met to survey the business outlook for the year. Despite concern about the instability of the dollar and the huge U.S. trade and budget deficits, the economists predicted that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will be a solid 4% this year, a middle course between the harrowing extremes of 1984. Growth last year ranged from 10.1% in the first three months down to 1.6% in the third quarter, which briefly raised fears that a recession...
...placed newspaper ads charging that Guirola planned to use the money to buy votes. In Washington, White House aides have leaked reports tying the money to drug deals. The campaign against d'Aubuisson could backfire if his supporters convince voters that the episode, including Guirola's arrest, amounts to gross U.S. interference in Salvadoran politics...