Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S economists predicted that the gross national product will expand 2% this quarter, down from the 4% they foresaw last September, and then grow a healthy 3% to 4% in 1985. That increase would be typical for the third year of an economic recovery. Board members predicted that the pickup will trim unemployment from the 7.2% rate it unexpectedly fell to in November to 7% by mid-1985. They look for joblessness to remain stuck at that relatively high level through...
Nesson: There is, to me, a question of whether a reporter, a newspaper was acting within the norms of journalism in printing what they printed. Something like a gross negligence standard...
...became the first person to survive for any length of time with an animal heart--"unethical, impractical and immoral," Harvard doctors have broken the usually silent ranks of the medical profession lest the public become overly enthralled in the aberration. Likewise, the Humana Hospital has been charged with a gross neglect of established health policy by venturing into the artificial health field with an eye for publicity and profit...
...question still haunts businesses and consumers: Has Volcker's rescue mission come too late to save the recovery? Growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, plummeted from an annual rate of 8.6% in the first half of the year to only 1.9% in the July-September quarter. And bleaker news may lie ahead. The Commerce Department announced last week that the index of leading economic indicators, a barometer of future growth, fell .7% in October. It was the index's third decline in the past five months...
...much the U.S. could theoretically afford to spend but how it should apportion the resources available for medicine. Those resources, though not unlimited, are enormous. After a generation of rising costs, the U.S. now spends more than $1 billion every day on health care, 10.8% of the gross national product. Once a country spends more than 10% of G.N.P on health, says Robert Rushmer, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington who has studied medical costs in Europe, it begins imposing restrictions on who gets what. "We have to come to grips with the fact that our technical...