Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against Time, CBS and Cravath, Swaine and Moore--the giant New York City law firm which defended both media conglomerates--was a defense of the two generals, whom nobody particularly likes. CBS and Time merely confirmed many people's worst suspicions about Sharon and Westmoreland when reporting allegations of gross naughtiness on both their parts...
Soon after Adler's articles appeared in The New Yorker, CBS publicized a 49-page, point-by-point counterattack. Adler's charges, CBS wrote to New Yorker editor William Shawn, were "plainly false, gross misrepresentations and distortions of the record." A few weeks later, the editor-in-chief of Time sent Shawn a similar letter. Publication of the articles in book form was delayed as lawyers pored over CBS's and Time's accusations and Adler's rebuttals. Meanwhile, one of the intelligence analysts who testifed at the Westmoreland trial himself sued Adler for libel...
...true fact (as opposed to the government kind) that most newspaper publishers would rather give away free ads than pay their employees a living wage. Decent salaries would violate the most sacred tenet of journalism, which is to net 20 percent on gross...
...preventive, curative and occupational health services; is universal in coverage, community controlled, rationally organized, equitably financed, with no out-of-pocket charges, is sensitive to the particular health needs of all, and is efficient in containing its cost; and whose yearly expenditure does not exceed the proportion of the Gross National Product spent on health care in the immediately preceding fiscal year...
...economy seemed to rejuvenate itself during the third quarter. The Commerce Department reported last week that the gross national product grew at the respectable annual rate of 2.4% for the three months ending with September. The sharp improvement over the all but lifeless .6% growth in GNP that was posted during the second quarter at least momentarily quieted fears of a downturn. Says Walter Heller, a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota: "There is no recession in sight...