Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With 100 crates full of assault rifles? You Americans are so arrogant with your gross violations of international law. How do you think your government would respond if a foreigner came into your country with so many weapons...
...Gross profits at the two theaters are as high as any in Boston and will eliminate much of the competition in bidding for new releases, according to a source high in the area movie business...
...Grossinger's never changed its identity. Back in 1914 the Galician emigres Selig and Malke Grossinger bought a farm with a down payment of $450. After they became innkeepers they turned a first-year gross of $81. But things picked up between the wars. Their blond, gregarious daughter Jennie had acquired some nearby property, and with an amalgam of public relations, real estate smarts and philanthropy, she became the lodestar of the Catskills. Politicians came to the place they called the "G" to court the Jewish vote, athletes to use the growing facilities, entertainers to try out new routines...
...great and the Grossinger: Jack Benny, Robert Kennedy, Lionel Hampton, Jackie Robinson, Terence Cardinal Cooke, Alan Alda, Yogi Berra, Nelson Rockefeller, Ralph Bunche, Eleanor Roosevelt. The 800-acre complex had its own post office (Grossinger, N.Y.), 600 rooms, a l,700-seat dining area, a $7 million annual gross. Its dancing masters Tony and Lucille introduced the mambo to the U.S. Jennie appeared on This Is Your Life...
Similarly, a close look should be taken at those properties where there is reason to believe that greater than 60 percent of the gross rent is net income or profit. A change in rent board policy toward adjusting rents on a building by building basis rather than groups or classes of building would address many of the present inequities including the "hardship" cases. This change in policy would require a reappraisal of the "presumption of fairness" in 1967 rents. After moving to an "expenses plus fair income" accounting, a few properties would require sharp adjustments to be within guidlines...