Word: gross
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steel-stomached, the museum offers "Scoop on Poop." This gross but hilarious exhibit explains the not-so pleasant bodily functions of burping, diarrhea and passing gas. The model toilet--complete with (you guessed it) imitation poop--is a definite favorite. Somehow, even though kids and adults alike find it repulsive, they make repeated trips to stare into the porcelain bowl...
...CAPTION: Gross National Product...
...LIKES our current health care system: it costs too much to provide too little care for too few. As a nation we spent $666 billion on health care last year, a whopping 14 percent of our gross national product. And 35 million Americans have no health insurance whatsoever...
...cares about costs? Can we put a price on good health? We better before our economy goes into intensive care. The current rate of health care costs is "threatening to consume an impossible proportion of the gross domestic product." That's not a Bush critic talking. Those are the words of the President's own budget director, Richard Darman...
...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...