Word: gross
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According to Samuel Gross, a professor of criminal procedure at Michigan Law School, "there's a point at which an open investigation of who committed a crime becomes instead the prosecution of suspect X. If that happens early on in the case, the chances of making a mistake are very great." In the Atlanta bombing, the shift from an open investigation to the prosecution of a particular suspect does seem to have taken place very early, and the result was certainly a mistake...
...that can happen when it's the directors and stars, eager to do good works and glean Oscar nods, who subsidize the projects by working for next to nothing. Branagh's sumptuous-looking Hamlet was shot for a mere $18 million. In its domestic release, the film need gross only about $12 million to break even. Why, Robin Williams, one of Hamlet's A-list co-stars, could earn that much on a single Jumanji-size movie...
...knowing that if I were being tortured, or if I had been imprisoned for something that I had said, I would want someone to write a letter for me," she says. "Just knowing that I have a chance to possibly stop torture or to stop what I see as gross injustice, even if there's a slight chance that something I do helps, makes it worth...
...estimated budget figures do not include multimillion-dollar marketing costs. Film companies typically keep one-half of the domestic gross and get additional revenue from sources like cable and video distribution...
...know Ollie North was running a private air flotilla to illegally supply the contras. And now we are to believe that the agency didn't know planes were coming back loaded with cocaine that addicted Americans? Does such astonishing, habitual ignorance by our top "intelligence" agency show anything but gross incompetence and wasted funding? Maybe the CIA was distracted by its primary mission: not knowing the Soviet Union was going down the tubes. Surely we can find another group that does not know all this--much cheaper. JOHN BURKE Bayville, New York...