Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign that a fresh injection is required, so that night of love becomes a kind of spermicidal bath. Orogenital contact is definitely counter indicated, especially as the spermicides are about as toxic as if sperm were mice... Why the diaphragm and all that sails within it should be so gross is unimaginable: if toothpaste tasted as disgusting as spermicide, the teeth of the nation would have fallen out years...
...tickets have not arrived by two days before the concert, the fans are to assume they have not won admission. Refunds will be made up to eight weeks later. The Jacksons will keep the interest that piles up while a projected $1 billion sits in the bank. The expected gross receipts from the tour, not including souvenirs: $100 million...
...planes. Kuwait could also be shielded from unfriendly fire by what amounts to a Saudi umbrella. Kuwait has no oil pipeline, and the Saudi shield could be vital in ensuring the safety of tankers and thus protecting the country's oil revenues, which constitute about half of its gross domestic product. To calm the apprehensions of customers, the Kuwaitis have already offered to use their own tankers to carry their oil to commercial ships anchored outside the gulf...
...million Department of Defense (DOD) dollars passed through Cambridge mostly in the form of contracts for military-related research, the report stated This total represents between 10 and 15 percent of the city's gross economic product...
Said the President: "I will be talking to people who also have deficits at pretty much the same percentage rates of their gross national products as ours." Using an argument that the other heads of government are most unlikely to accept, he insisted that interest rates are "not connected to the deficit [but] are tied to the lack of confidence of so many in the market, as to whether we are determined to hold down inflation." Aides note that high interest rates are not all bad; they indirectly help produce a huge trade deficit that hurts the U.S. but helps...