Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benefits of the GATT have been widely acknowledged. It will help to reinvigorate a stagnant global economy. This translates into a profit of about $120 billion, one half of one percent of today's gross world product. Since its inception, the GATT has proved remarkably successful in orchestrating the reduction of world tariff rates, which have fallen from an average of 40 percent in 1947, to four percent today...
...Women bring to public policy a different experience in life and therefore a different set of priorities," Ireland said. "That's definitely a gross generalization, but we do tend to champion different issues...
...right, the new technology will force the merger of television, telecommunications, computers, consumer electronics, publishing and information services into a single interactive information industry. Apple Computer chairman John Sculley estimates that the revenue generated by this megaindustry could reach $3.5 trillion worldwide by the year 2001. (The entire U.S. gross national product today is about $5.9 trillion...
...root of the Russian parliament's challenge to Yeltsin. For months, lawmakers have been trying to rein in his liberalized prices and his plans to privatize land and modernize industry. They say reforms that have produced painful side effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia's subsidized, militarized economy into...
...infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that he is prey for the scrawniest bully. His gross grandfather (Julien Guiomar) has tried to drown Leo, who can't wait to return the favor...