Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that of any country in Western Europe. One of every five or six Africans is a Nigerian. Because of its oil resources, which have made it the third largest supplier of petroleum to the U.S. (after Mexico and Britain), Nigeria is the wealthiest nation in black Africa, with a gross national product that is more than half as large as that of the other black African nations combined. Unlike many other African countries, it has a sizable class of educated men and women who are well trained to run its government, industry and armed forces. And notwithstanding the occasional clampdowns...
...primaries and the length of the selection process. Though well intended, however, the proliferation of primaries, from 17 in 1968 to 36 in 1980, seemed to backfire badly, turning the nominating process into a veritable steeplechase that discouraged those with hefty official responsibilities from running and led to gross inconsistencies in state voting rules...
There was a terrible period just after they opened, said Lyle, when "nobody came, nobody called." They grossed $23,000 their first year. The 1983 gross was $40,000. They do not speak of net-out of fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes...
...necessarily, says Law Professor John Wade of Vanderbilt University, who helped write the model statute on which the New York law is based. Unless the motorman was guilty of gross recklessness, Wade contends, no jury would blame him. "Even if there was some negligence on the part of the subway driver," he says, jurors would cut the award "down to practically nothing...
...UNEMPLOYMENT SUDDENLY halts its steady drop and even begins to rise again. The Gross Natural Product sustains a major loss approaching $70 billion. The national deficit surges another $26 billion on top of its already record levels. Interest rates shoot up more than 2 percent in a matter of weeks. The Democratic nominee coasts into the Oval Office amid the ruins of a recovery for which Ronald Reagan took the credit. What happened...