Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time performer in an inexpensive ($5 million) foreign movie -- thrilled Davidson. The minimoguls at Miramax, the film's U.S. distributor, might have been tickled too, since The Crying Game received five other important nominations (for best picture, actor, director, screenplay and editing), which promises that the film's domestic gross, a robust $16 million so far, could double or better. But the Miramaxers were spooked. They had helped make Davidson's identity the best-kept open secret in recent movie history. Would the ingenue's Oscar bid spoil their hiding game...
...mergers and reorganizations, investing billions of dollars and creating an estimated 1.5 million new jobs. Fearful of being left out, U.S. and Japanese companies scrambled to set up European subsidiaries before the deadline. The prize: an integrated market of 360 million consumers in an area with a combined gross national product of $6.5 trillion -- the world's largest single trading bloc...
...time when honesty is required, any perceived disingenuousness can be fatal -- yet there has been too much of that already. Labeling Social Security tax increases as spending cuts invites ridicule, and mixing up gross and net deficit-reduction figures is similarly foolish. Correcting such lapses by demanding that the unvarnished truth be told should not be difficult, but getting the congressional Democrats in line is another matter. And since Clinton has apparently abandoned any hope of G.O.P. support for his plan, even a moderate number of Democratic defections could doom the enterprise...
...also linked growth in Mexico's Gross Domestic Product to a rise in spending on education. The country's national expenditures on education have risen from 3.8 percent of GDP in 1988 to 5.5 percent...
...student ghetto is the most dangerous area for women in Canada," Gross said. "It is socially incorrect to walk by yourself, People ask you if you're going with WalkSafe...