Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is, in effect, what the Russians have done. Though they pledge to repay the 265 billion rubles outstanding in twenty years--a promise far from being sacrosanct--inflation and expansion will probably have made this sum insignificant. By 1980 the Soviet gross national product can possibly quadruple from its present value of one trillion rubles. At the legal rate of exchange this is $250 million, but at the actual consumer value of the ruble it is closer to $100 million...
...noted that the size of the national debt has declined over the last ten years by about one-half in relation to the gross national product. He criticized "unwarranted slashes of security and welfare outlays, and excessive burdens on state and local government...
Harris estimated that the gross national product will rise by $1.6 billion to a record $31.4 billion. From this wellspring of wealth, the government will dip $5,170,000,000, spend...
...Boston's Dr. Robert Edward Gross, then 33, operated successfully to eliminate a patent ductus arteriosus-a tubular connection between pulmonary artery and aorta that normally closes soon after birth. Falling back on Alexis Carrel's brilliant experiments in the early 1900s, which showed that arteries if handled properly can be cut apart and stitched together again, with or without an intervening graft, Gross next developed an operation to cut out an abnormal narrowing (coarctation) of the aorta...
Into the Freezer. But there are some holes between the auricles which are so placed, or of such size, that they cannot be closed by closed techniques, i.e., without opening the heart. Gross had devised an ingenious way of sewing a rubber well to the auricle so that he could open the chamber and work inside it with his fingers and suture needle, but he was still operating blindly by feel in a puddle of pulsing blood. The problem was that, at normal body temperature, the brain suffers irreparable damage if deprived of blood for more than about four minutes...