Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inflation in Hungary reached 18.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, and its gross foreign debt has mounted steadily to a current $18 billion. Many Hungarians have complained about austerity measures imposed to curb inflation...
...Star Darlene Love, playing a teacher, breaks character to step forward and smile in acknowledgment of the audience's greeting. The high school bits are apparently meant to be spoofs, except for a bizarre dance about slaughtering a pig, which turns out, inadvertently, to be the funniest moment. As gross-out entertainment, Carrie fails to deliver. Early scenes offer literal stage blood and fire, but the gymnasium Gotterdammerung is all metaphor. It is just smoke and flashing lights and lasers asking to be transformed by the audience's imagination -- a quality lacking in the creators of this mismatched morass...
Even if Schluter and his allies eventually win the latest skirmish, Danish ambivalence toward NATO is unlikely to fade. Defense spending has dwindled to 2.1% of the country's gross domestic product, one of the lowest rates in the < alliance. (Norway, by contrast, spends 3.1%.) Since 1965 the armed forces have been roughly halved, to 29,000 personnel...
...blame deregulation and the pressure it has placed on airline profits. Maintenance is expensive: when United performs a major overhaul on a 747, the job consumes almost 15,000 worker-hours and $2.5 million. During the first eight years after deregulation, from 1979 through 1986, the industry suffered gross operating losses of $7.1 billion, as opposed to $2.2 billion in profits in the previous eight years. Many airlines have bounced back, so that the industry as a whole should post operating profits of more than $2 billion in 1988, predicts David Sylvester of Kidder Peabody. But not all airlines...
After last October's stock-market crash, consumers grew more cautious for a while, but now they are emptying their pocketbooks and stretching the limits of their credit cards once again. Though the real gross national product increased at a moderate 2.3% annual rate in the first quarter, consumer spending rose at a more robust 3.8% pace...