Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...
...imagine a country that regularly runs annual budget deficits five times as bad as those of the U.S.; whose fiscal policy is so paralyzed by political rivalries that its national debt is equal to its gross domestic product (vs. only 50% for the U.S.); whose debt problem is so out of hand that interest payments alone amount to 8% of GDP. Compared with this, the U.S. seems almost a model of fiscal probity...
When it really counted, the Big Red (13-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy) would not be denied. Setter Ann Korioth led the Cornell attack with 48 assists. Alex Gross had 15 kills to anchor the Red. In the final game of the match, Cornell converted 41 percent of all its kill attempts to capture the victory...
...LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
...rewards, unless, like Bauer, you count looking up from your chores to watch a flight of geese or down at some of the richest soil in the world. According to Sally's accounting, the year Rhodes hung around was so-so: the family netted $19,000 on a gross income...