Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gross Jr. Sarasota...
...filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from the worst drought in a decade, crippling agriculture, which accounts for 16% of the country's gross national product and provides income to 70% of the population...
...Hollywood standards, the latest Tora-San budget, $1.6 million, would fall under the heading "Etc." Yet the one now playing, in which Tora-San plays a Nipponese Cyrano de Bergerac, is almost certain to gross $8 million...
Judge Harper decided that the latter should go to Roxanne, who was unemployed and living in a mobile home before she married Pulitzer, grandson of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, seven years ago. He ruled that she had "continuously engaged in adultery and other gross marital misconduct." Indeed, testimony indicated that she had slept with a Palm Beach real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver and Jacquie Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful...
...economic problems elsewhere in the Caribbean is a depressing one. Cash debts are staggering: the islands as a whole owe Western banks and governments more than $6.5 billion. In Jamaica (pop. 2.2 million) the $1.4 billion foreign debt is equal to 40% of the country's entire gross domestic product. In Grenada, the Marxist-inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among...