Word: grosse
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...there were five countries in the world with a higher per capita Gross Domestic Product--the best indicator of national prosperity--than the U.S. Four of those countries, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and West Germany, are, in varying degrees, social democracies. The fifth, Japan, succeeds because it has the sort of interventionist industrial policy that conservatives loathe...
According to the report, Shortchanging Education, only Ireland and Australia invest less than the U.S. in basic education in terms of a percentage of gross national product. Of the 16 countries studied, Sweden spends the most (7%), followed by Austria (5.9%), Switzerland (5.8%), Norway (5.3%) and Belgium (4.9%). Denmark and Japan tied at 4.8%, while the U.S. spends only 4.1%. "If the U.S. were to increase spending for primary and secondary school up to the 'average' level found in the other 15 countries," the study says, "we would need to raise spending by over $20 billion annually...
...HUPD) and The Harvard Crimson recently participated in what should be perceived as an attack on the gay community by using the most crude and violent tactics at their disposal to publicly humiliate, and consequently, to devastate seven gay men who were recently arrested for engaging in "open and gross lewdness" in the Science Center bathroom...
...former merchandising director for Penthouse, Steel rose to production chief at Paramount in 1985. At Columbia she fired a few blanks, notably the $23 million Casualties of War. But she scored major hits with When Harry Met Sally . . . (gross revenues: $92 million) and Ghostbusters II ($112 million), pushing Columbia from last place among the major studios in 1988 to No. 3 last year. Even so, Steel, 43, figured her job was in jeopardy when Sony bought Columbia last September and installed producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters as co-chairmen. She departs with a pay package said to be worth...
...familiar refrain at parties and in bars: women just can't hold their liquor. They are quicker to get giddy, and they stay drunk longer than men matching them drink for drink. For years, the difference was attributed to gross anatomy: On average, women are smaller than men, and thus alcohol gets into their tissues more rapidly. And because they carry proportionately more fat and less water in their bodies, liquor is diluted more gradually, prolonging its heady effects...