Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, this rosy picture has blemishes. Private-sector savings in the U.S. have hit a historic low: -4% of gross domestic product, according to Hormats. "This private-sector deficit is enormous," he says. People feel flush enough, due to their soaring stock portfolios, to keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn...
NAME: PETER ("I'M NOT A SIMPSON") BART OCCUPATION: Editor, Variety BEST PUNCH: In his new book, The Gross, the Hits, the Flops, claims Beatty lifted the idea for the film Bulworth from works by Somerset Maugham and Jules Verne...
...course, anyone with a pocket protector will point out that labeling Harvard's "biggest" computer requires gross simplification. Are we talking biggest monitor? Biggest capacity? Computer which allows most number of simultaneous log-ons? Computer "size" is truly in the definition of the beholder, and Machine Room #1 can be considered to house the "biggest" only in the sense that its giant is currently devoted to the largest single task of any Harvard computer system...
...Harvard Coop suffered a three percent lossrate in 1998, which means losses made up threepercent of the store's gross sales. Thattranslates to a loss of $3.75 million...
...students turn in homework, making it nearly impossible to discuss course material. The Boston Globe reported that as many as 20% of teachers have, in response, simply stopped assigning homework. "Peculiar to urban high schools is the notion that homework is an imposition," laments Boston High English teacher Riza Gross. "It's horrifying and deteriorating...