Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial coverage, particularly Carl T Rowan's analysis, has indicated a gross misunderstanding of the history and the goal of our boycott...
...four-hour report to delegates, Chairman Hu declared that China's top priority for the remainder of the century was economic modernization. Brimming with confidence, he called for the quadrupling of China's gross national product to $1.4 trillion by the year 2000. (The U.S.'s current G.N.P.: $2.9 trillion.) Although China's economic system will remain socialist, Hu urged greater reliance on foreign technology and market mechanisms. One capitalistic idea known as the "responsibility system" already allows peasants to increase their pay by doing extra work, and allows farmers to keep or sell production...
...months of 1982, the highest number in 34 years, and 50% more than during the same period last year. Unemployment, which was almost unknown in West Germany during the 1960s and early 1970s, rose in July to 1.75 million, or 7.2% of the labor force. The country's gross national product is expected to rise only 1% in 1982, after declining .3% last year...
Then why expect a boom? Kahn's broadest reason is apolitical: a slowing of population growth and a continuing rise in gross world product should mean that there will be more to go around. In the U.S., he offers the possibility of a $5 trillion gross national product in 2000 that would mean a per capita income of about $20,000. There is no prediction about how this wealth will trickle to 250 million Americans. There is guarded optimism about inflation. Inflation, of course, is very thinkable, though Kahn's thoughts on how to deal with...
...haircut cost in those days? Fifty cents. And a Hershey bar? Five cents. When the S.M.A.P. reads that E.T. earned $17 million over the July 4 weekend, he remembers paying 25? to see Gone With the Wind. In fact, he remembers when Gone With the Wind's gross of $40 million established a record that was expected to stand forever, like Ty Cobb's 96 stolen bases or Babe Ruth's 60 homeruns...