Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he proposed his dramatic economic package shortly after taking office, Reagan said that it would produce a budget surplus by fiscal 1984. Instead, it helped create a fundamental disparity between revenues and expenditures. Even assuming sustained growth, revenues will remain at about 19% of the gross national product. And even if the further reductions in domestic expenditures requested by Reagan are passed by Congress, outlays will not fall below 23% of the G.N.P. Unless the budget process can be used to force deep cuts in entitlement programs, Budget Director David Stockman warned the Cabinet last month, the country faces...
...letter, Anderson criticizes the Spartacists for being Stalinist--a gross lie--and then becomes an apologist for the real Stalinists, the Communist Party USA. In fact, it is Anderson's own popular-front politics ("Just tell them what they want to hear") that are Stalinist, not to mention dangerous for all the struggles of the oppressed. If he didn't seem so paranoid that the Spartacist League "has got to be some right-wing front," perhaps he would be interested in discussing more important political differences...
...neutral nation that has long steered a careful path between the two superpowers, Sweden reacted to the spying with unusual harshness. The government recalled its Ambassador to Moscow, and Socialist Prime Minister Olof Palme summoned Soviet Ambassador Boris Pankin for an hourlong dressing down. Declared Palme: "The gross violations of Swedish territorial integrity should be roundly condemned...
...analysis of Russia's greatest calling--hiccups. Another chapter is a bartender's manual for some of the most bizarre drinks ever conceived, including an unorthodox mixture of beer, two kinds of shampoo (one anti-dandruff), and insect repellant. The humor ranges from the highly subtle to the truly gross, most of it reasonably well-served by J.R. Dorrell's colloquial translation...
...nation's economy continued to recover from its deep recession, as shown by a modest 3.1% upturn in the gross national product in the year's first quarter. President Reagan's popularity, which had been slipping for two years, finally rose slightly in one national poll. And on the South Lawn of the White House, Reagan signed a bipartisan bill designed to rescue the Social Security system from bankruptcy. Said he: "Our system can still work when men and women of good will join together to make it work...