Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death penalty is not a matter of personal vengeance. It is a tool society has to punish gross offenders of society's rules, and to protect its innocent...
...wrong so fast? One reason is that Asia's "tiger" economies had a virtually unlimited credit line from the world's bankers. The easy money combined with easy virtue in places like Indonesia, where an authoritarian government and crony capitalism led to corruption, poor corporate management and gross overspending on grandiose public projects. The foreign capital borrowed to build many of those projects has become much more expensive to pay back because of devaluations. In fact, much of the debt will have to be restructured...
Although it's true that the gross correlation between spending and performance in schools is not high, over the years researchers have amassed an impressive body of evidence showing that money does in fact help a lot if it is spent on the right things, like small reading classes. Taking local control away from nonperforming schools also seems to work. The heads of the school systems in New York City and Chicago have both done this recently, with good results. The only way to make sure no American child gets a substandard education is to guarantee, nationally, that every child...
David P. Davidson, the director for campus restaurants, said that Harvard Dining Services (HDS) had decided to raise prices on the two items because they had not been contributing to the gross profit margins...
Evil can be passive, like Albert's, or gross, like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then...