Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single quarter, of course, does not guarantee a full year's comeback. Citing the U.S. economy's anemic 1.4% growth in gross domestic product, Ford's chairman, Harold Poling, warned that his company intended to stockpile its winnings against a traditionally weak third quarter and refused even to chip in a dividend boost for shareholders. General Motors is expected to remain in the losers' column when it reports its quarterly earnings this week, mainly because of huge write-offs from its troubled Hughes defense subsidiary. "We haven't had any real recovery yet," cautions Shearson Lehman analyst Joseph Phillippi...
...there's a gross overreaction going on, building to a veritable paroxysm of white denial. A national boycott has been called, not just of the song or Ice-T, but of all Time Warner products. The President himself has denounced Time Warner as "wrong" and Ice-T as "sick." Ollie North's Freedom Alliance has started a petition drive aimed at bringing Time Warner executives to trial for "sedition and anarchy...
...Those are two different things. The thing I think will work is to raise the top tax rate on people with gross incomes above $200,000 to 35% or 36% and put < a surtax on people with incomes of a million dollars or more a year. But it would not be fair for you to say I'm running on a read-my-lips pledge just because I'm in principle opposed to raising taxes on the middle class. I think Bush made a terrible mistake saying "Read my lips" without knowing what the facts were...
...figured I could test my tolerance for hard-core parody, see if my sense of humor could withstand this gross spectacle which everyone was saying could be the underground's next big thing. The could be genuinely funny, after all, sort of like Spinal Tap with an edge. I mean, they were just benign art students under all the papier mache, right...
...band's tune "you Ain't Shit Until You've killed a Cop." The cop danced headless around the stage for 20 minutes, his jugular spurting a jet of red water into the slam-dancing audience. The fans jumped up gleefully to catch it in their mouths. Gross, but sort of funny...