Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with their help, however, China cannot grow into an industrial giant in the 21st century. Its population is too large and its gross domestic product too small (it is expected to reach only $900 per capita by the year 2000). China's economy seems to be growing at 7% in 1992, but, as the former Soviet Union and East Germany once did, Beijing cranks out phony statistics. Moreover, China's growth projections are based essentially on light industry...
This presence of the antique, which was an obsessive and recurrent aspect of all artists' experience in Rome or Naples, surfaces elsewhere in Ribera's work, sometimes in a disguised form. Looking at the great white belly-bulge of his Drunken Silenus, 1626, one sees it as gross and comic. Yet there may be something more behind it; namely, the sarcophagus figures of Etruscan bigwigs, each displaying his un-ideal paunch, a common sight around Rome...
ALTMAN: I just don't agree with your numbers. The Clinton plan essentially says that if your family has $200,000 or more of adjusted gross income, you'll pay more tax. If you don't, you won't pay more tax. The average family of four at median income will experience...
ALTMAN: Clinton is not proposing a payroll tax. The real payroll tax that has gone on is what's happened to health-care costs on the Bush watch. Health-care costs have risen to 13% of gross domestic product, and to 8% of payroll...
Borrowing key lines from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood ("It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.../ Won't you be my, won't you be my funky neighbor?"), lead singer Whitfield Crane cleverly adds disgusting bodily sound effects to his "Eeewwww gross" lyrical portrayal of the neighbor no one wants...