Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gross me out baby, gag me with...
...last moment. One never forgets his short attempts the time that he was Christic Brinkley host the evening news (the voice over: "and now here's Christic with tonight's lead story on a chain-saw murder-suicide in Toledo." Milo: "Go For It!!" Christie: "Hi! Oh Gross..") Or Elvis' secret diaries, or Norma the Nuke--but one is almost always left dissatisfied. More annoying still is Breathed's attempt to pass off his lack of follow-through as creative weirdness. No nationally syndicated comic strip ever got by on weirdness alone, except Ziggy, the continuing story of a small...
Twenty-four years later and about 784 pages longer. Let's Go Europe has become the hottest selling budget travel guide in the country. More than 200,000 travelers bought one of last year's nine Let's Go guides, bringing gross sales to about $2.7 million...
...pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise per capita annual income from the present $300 to $800 by the year 2000. "Deng sees the Mao era as an interregnum between dynasties," notes a Western diplomat in Peking. "He sees his own epoch as the real beginning...
More mixed economic signals appeared last week. One day after reporting that personal income rose a scant .5% in March, the Government announced that the gross national product grew by an astonishing 8.3% in the first quarter of 1984. That was far above the Commerce Department's 7.2% preliminary estimate, and stunningly higher than the 5%-to-6% forecast for growth that most private economists had made. The gain in the G.N.P. was due primarily to higher inventories, a continuation of vigorous consumer spending and a hefty boost in federal farm subsidies...