Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cable operators pay a franchise fee of 3 to 5 percent of gross revenue back to cities and towns. This rate is set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Massachusetts law stipulates that cities can only collect 50 cents per subscriber. This means that a city like Cambridge with a 50 percent penetration rate (that is 20,000 out of 40,000 households) could collect only $10,000 as opposed to a possible $300,000 based on six million gross revenue...
...workings of the Soviet military industry. Holloway laboriously describes the defense bureaucracy and the apparatus of weapons production. The Soviet economy is geared to defense production--which absorbs the best minds, skills, and resources available--and hampered by it, as each year it gobbles roughly 12 percent of the Gross National Product. The chronic problem of the industry is its discouragement of innovation from below, which reflects the general rigidity of the economy. Holloway points out that Soviet research and development continually stresses evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, progress in weapons design...
Florence Whitaker Gross Milwaukee
...membership cards. Some of Alphabet Town's 15 or so clubs have their own house brands of drugs, like "Lucky Seven" cocaine or such standard heroin varieties as "Poison" and "Colt .45." Employees work strict business hours: there are three eight-hour shifts a day. Each club can gross upwards of $100,000 daily; many offer good employee benefits. In January, one club closed for two weeks to take its entire staff of 30 on a paid vacation to Hawaii...
...frequent flyers. There are a lot of people on the go all the time." Metromedia and American Express Co. have joined in a four-company venture that will also offer nationwide paging. NPR's partner in satellite beeping, Mobile Communications Corp. of America, estimates that their venture will gross about $10 million annually in five years...