Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notes Lynn Reaser, chief economist of NationsBank Private Client Group, a division of BankAmerica, the economy has been growing at a remarkably even clip. She believes gross-domestic-product growth in the second half of this year "will turn out to be about 3.5%, actually equal to the first half, which was in turn equal to the second half...
...native rituals and folkways such as "school" or "work"-and can often be spotted going to sleep at mid-night, or even earlier. Napping, while common in industrialized nations like our own native land, is considered primitive and uncultivated behavior. While the napping in reality viewed as a gross indulgence and will weaken their status among the tribe...
...gross perversions were not glamorized whenI was an undergraduate,” he wrote in the e-mailmessage. "Garden variety fornication, of course,raged in those days," he added...
Instead Washington is straddling two positions. It says gross violators of human rights should be punished, but at the same time the views of the democratic government of Chile should be respected. And Chile insists that Pinochet should be sent home. Beyond that, says State Department spokesman James Rubin, "we have no view as to the merits of the case...
...Rockefeller amassed a fortune that beggared description. When his net worth peaked at $900 million in 1913, it was equivalent to more than 2% of the gross national product; such a share today would be worth $190 billion, or nearly three times as much as Bill Gates' wealth...