Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan E. Gross...
...with youth-oriented TV rip-offs (Addams and Wayne's, plus the Star Trek and Naked Gun series) and thinking seriously about green lighting retreads of reruns: Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, even The Flintstones with John Goodman as Fred. This summer's only TV spin-off may gross less yet turn out to be more memorable than any of these: David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with...
...members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences are: Lea Professor of Medieval History Thomas N. Bisson; Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs Ashton B. Carter; Professor of Economics Claudia D. Goldin; Professor of Mathematics Benedict H. Gross; Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner; Professor of Medical Anthropology Arthur M. Kleinman...
...growth in gross domestic product was the strongest since early 1989 and came after an increase in consumer spending. Bush's problem is that while the recession has been technically over for a year, this doesn't feel much like a recovery -- though many economists warn that this may be as good as it's going to get. Unemployment remains stubbornly high; the jobless rate continues to hover at 7.3%, a six-year peak, and experts say it will take a more robust rate of growth to make a dent in that figure. Typical recoveries since World War II have...
...town whose very existence was a by-product of nuclear reactions. The federal complex is still the largest employer of the population of 30,000. Even the mayor is a physicist, and newspapers report levels of background radiation each week. But decades of studies have failed to find any gross health problems. Says Oak Ridge physicist Chester Richmond: "People here just don't accept the arguments that this material is going to give you cancer...