Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ariela J. Gross...
...foreign policy experts also say that the tremendous financial undertaking would never materialize in the present era. "In the immediate post-war period we were able to come forward with a major effort and spend 3 percent of our Gross National Product for the Marshall Plan. Today we can't get one half of one percent for such purposes," says Rusk...
...billion acquiring more than 20 companies, including three TV stations, ten daily newspapers, two magazines (Esquire and Redbook) and two book companies (Arbor House and William Morrow & Co.). Since the company remains privately owned, the balance sheet is a closely held secret. Industry observers calculate that Hearst's gross revenues last year totaled $1.9 billion, leaving an estimated pretax profit of $285 million...
...most comprehensive measure -- the gross national product of goods and services -- the U.S. expansion is still moving forward. For the first three months of the year, GNP increased at an annual rate of 4.3%, the largest quarterly gain since 1984. While that surge partly reflected a rise in the production of unsold goods that will probably not be repeated in the second quarter, it was welcome news. The employment statistics provide further evidence of the economy's momentum. In April the jobless rate fell to 6.3% of the work force, down from 6.6% the previous month...
...children die of starvation every day, our economic assistance has dropped by almost 50 percent in real dollars since 1960--and much of that is concentrated now on just two countries, Egypt and Israel. Among the industrialized nations, we have sunk to 17th in the proportion of our gross national product that we give to aid our poorer neighbors abroad. Some even have suggested that $200 million is to much to give to Aquino's Philippene government...