Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Turk said the responses show that there is "a gross imbalance in access" to the city manager by different groups in the city. He said the written evaluations show that Healy was accessible to businesses but not to citizen groups...
...Dione Goyette, both 28, decided to open three separate savings funds just after they got married in 1990: one for education, another for buying a house and a third for retirement. He is a financial analyst for Citibank, and she works for United Airlines; together they manage to gross between $50,000 and $70,000 a year. At their current savings rate, Paul doubts they'll ever reach their goals. He moans, "From what I read, it's going to cost a billion dollars a semester to put our kids through college...
...Privately he understands that a true halving (in absolute dollars) would require a gasoline tax and other levies he is loath to impose. Eventually, the political trick will probably involve redefining the problem, either by 1) claiming that halving the deficit as a ratio of the debt to the gross domestic product should be considered a promise fulfilled or 2) arguing that there are different kinds of deficits, and that any funds appropriated for long-term improvements like public works projects should be viewed as welcome investments rather than as crippling and wasteful current-consumptio n expenditures...
...came up with was nearly twice as thick and twice as expensive as usual hose. "Everyone here thought we were on drugs," recalls Hanes vice president Cathy Volker. But the gamble paid off. Customers recognized the superior quality and paid for it. This year the business is likely to gross $30 million at wholesale...
...whatever reason--maybe it's because health care eats up 13 percent of our gross national product--we bought it this year. While universal care seemed a pipe dream when Sen. Bob Kerrey first injected it into the 1992 campaign, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas soon jumped on the bandwagon. Support for universal health care, in one form or another, differentiated the Arkansasan from President Bush, who supported tax incentives to expand coverage but wouldn't guarantee everyone a health plan. Polls show that health care stuck out more than any other issue in the minds of Clinton voters...