Word: gross
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...cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. That burden was eased ever so slightly last week when presidential son Neil Bush and 12 other former associates of Silverado agreed to cough up $49.5 million as part of a settlement of the Federal Government's $200 million civil suit alleging gross negligence and insider dealings...
...lines only dogs can hear." Reflecting on his first, butchered script, for What's New Pussycat, which became enormously popular, Allen said, "If they had let me make it, I could have made it twice as funny and half as successful." By this standard, Allen's Alice (U.S. gross: $7 million) is 40 times as good as Home Alone (U.S. gross: $270 million...
Women who do press charges face a heavy burden of proof. The National Clearinghouse on Marital and Date Rape in Berkeley reports that though 20 states have completely eliminated preferential treatment for husbands, 26 other states hover in a gray zone: without gross brutality, the husband has the benefit of the doubt. If prosecutors decide they have enough for a case, ( however, they usually win; between 1978 and 1985, only 118 cases of spousal rape went to trial, but 104 wound up with a conviction...
HARVARD'S FOOD has provided the material for many a Crimson complaint. Unappetizing, unpalatable, indigestible, gross--you name the adjective, we've used it in our staff editorials. They were fun to write. Perhaps they were fun to read. But they didn't accomplish diddly...
Last year Goldie Hawn's Bird on a Wire got the Memorial Day jump on the competition and galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other...