Word: gross
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...holders of sham 349 caps, and the company paid out $10 million in the process. The appeasement effort may be rendered futile when the cases reach court, especially if the judge agrees with the Philippine Senate Trade Committee, which released a report this month that faults the company for "gross negligence" and "misleading or deceptive advertising...
Last year, the owners of the 26 major league baseball teams, in gross violation of major league baseball policy and tradition, fired Fay Vincent as baseball commissioner. In the ensuing months, those owners have moved to destroy popular support for The Game throughout the country. And by doing so, they have seriously compromised its future...
...home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like: the cat is boiled in the spaghetti, a girl pours honey over a boy and sets ants on him. They like the gross stuff." Surely his young readers have some taboos? Furry animals? "The pets are dead meat," Stine replies...
Another criticism: animals shouldn't have to learn unnatural tricks. Says David Simser, a biologist with the Massachusetts-based International Wildlife Coalition: "We foster the ideology that these creatures should be performing for us. What kind of education is that? It's a gross injustice." Not so, says Kevin Walsh, director of training at New York's aquarium: "You can see them jumping and doing flips in the ocean. The flips just aren't as clean." Some "tricks" have dual purposes, as when beluga whales learn to put their tail in the air both for performances and for giving veterinarians...
...cable- TV debut a decade ago, to be the natural successor to the shopping mall. But years of selling such schlock as silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring Saks Fifth Avenue and famous designers like Diane von Furstenberg...