Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recovery. The agreements came at a time when new statistics indicated that the economy was beginning to slow down from the torrid pace of the first half of the year, as most experts have been predicting. The Commerce Department reported last week that according to its preliminary estimates, the gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 3.6%, down from 7.1% in the second quarter. In addition, housing starts in August plunged 12.8% to an annual rate of 1.53 million units, the lowest level since December 1982. Many experts agreed with the judgment of Commerce...
...Ariela Gross '87, Harvard's own nonuke nuke activist, spent freshman week is Washington, speaking at the National Women's Conference to Prevent Nuclear...
...Gross, who gained national attention in her senior year of high school by presenting President Reagan with a nuclear freeze petition signed by 100 Presidential scholars, was paired on the speaker's list with 94-year-old suffragette Margeret Scott Olmsted...
...establish characters or situations. In the Bleeding Heart, the kids really walk and talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...
TIME'S economists predict that growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will fall from 7.6% in the second quarter to 4% in the last three months of the year. In 1985 growth is expected to remain at a healthy 3.5% pace. As the economy slows, upward pressure on interest rates should ease considerably. The TIME board forecasts that the prime rate will rise no more than a percentage point, to 14%, between...