Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what does it actually mean when one finds somebody responsible for an act because he should have known what would happen? He is not imputing stupidity; the person would probably be let off the hook for merely behaving stupidly. Is he implying gross incompetence or a shallow carelessness? Perhaps, but these contentions, too, lessen the degree of personal culpability. No, when someone in authority is told that he ought to have anticipated a disaster, it means that the grand total of his professional experience and knowledge demanded, beyond reasonable doubt, that he behave differently than he did. Indeed...
...only 45 percent of the costs they incur, and the interstates are deteriorating at a rate 50 percent greater than anticipated due to huge increases in truck volume and weight. A study done by the Illinois Department of Transportation estimated that a 5 percent increase in gross and axle weights would produce damage by a single truck equivalent to that done by 10,000 passenger cars; the 1974 and 1983 legislation increased weights by 10 percent...
During the 1950s, Bulgaria shifted into industrial gear. Today its industries account for nearly half of the gross national product, while agricultural output makes up only 18%. A Bulgarian firm called Balkancar is one of the world's largest producers of forklifts. Economic growth in 1982 was about 2.5%, one of the highest among the Soviet satellites. Moscow is both a customer and a supplier: it buys about half of Bulgaria's exports and provides 90% of its oil. Consumer prices are relatively high for a Soviet-bloc country ($2 per Ib. for pork, $200 for a small...
...These projections assume that Congress will enact standby increases in oil and income taxes that would go into effect on Oct. 1, 1985, under three conditions: that the legislators first pass all of Reagan's spending reductions; that the deficit still seems likely to exceed 2.5% of gross national product, or $100 billion a year; and that the economy is not in a recession...
...would be pure illusion to suppose that Merlin is just a genial magic show that can get by on the razzle of its star and the dazzle of its effects. The musical is said to require a weekly gross of $275,000 merely to break even, a statistic that terrifies theater insiders. Still, Henning is one of Broadway's certified miracle workers. With a se ries of pans, The Magic Show ran 4? years. He could do it yet again. If he does, it will be the neatest trick of his brief but astonishing career. ?By Stefan Kanfer