Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue. Human-rights groups estimate that as many as 1,000 Peruvians are languishing in jail after being wrongly accused of involvement with guerrillas--and convicted by masked judges sitting on anonymous military tribunals. The prisons are some of the world's most inhumane, with inmates suffering gross malnourishment and spending only a half-hour daily outside their impossibly overcrowded cells...
Dustin Hoffman isn't satisfied with Tootsie. The movie was fine, but his share of the profits was not--so he is suing Columbia Pictures for more than $1.5 million. He claims he was supposed to get 25% of the gross profits after the movie earned $130 million, but that when Tootsie was sold to TV, the studio did some fancy financial footwork to avoid paying Hoffman...
...Applebaum, in fact, who has put his finger on the case's underlying class issue. Perhaps unaware that the service economy constitutes 75% of the country's gross domestic product, many folks beyond big cities and high-income brackets consider it a bit excessive for the wealthy to hire people to do their shopping for them, let alone their pilfering. Thus, in addition to denying any wrongdoing, Applebaum ventured, "I would hope the fact they may be upper middle class is not something they will be punished for or made an example...
...care system. For one thing, the state proposed channeling more of this money to welfare families by reducing day-care subsidies to the working poor through higher co-payments and eligibility standards. (Some low-income families would have been required to spend as much as 46% of their gross income on child care.) The state also proposed a sliding-scale co-pay structure for welfare recipients based on their income and the cost of the care they choose, and created a new category called "provisional certified care." This care, to be provided by any adult who passes a criminal background...
...policymakers to reconsider the co-pay provisions. Last week, on its recommendation, Wisconsin revised the plan. Day-care co-payments will be calculated primarily according to income and number of children, not the cost of care. And a family's co-payment obligation will be capped at 16% of gross income. To help close the spending gap between this formula and the earlier one, Thompson will use an extra $25 million in federal money for 1997 that the state had earned from reductions in its welfare rolls during recent years. "We're leading the country. Nobody has tried to adopt...