Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than a few items in the Contract. But they have made a start on the central question of slowing the growth of government. Still, the Republican budget doesn't really cut the size of the government as it exists today. It only reduces the share of gross domestic product that government would have taken if existing spending patterns had gone unchanged. The Republican proposal does promise a balanced budget in 2002, a signal accomplishment. Most important, the argument is settled about whether balance is desirable. Bill Clinton has signed on. But fiscal sanity is not the goal. Reducing...
...themselves. Consider New Hampshire. Despite being among the 10 wealthiest states according to income and having a relatively low overall tax burden, the state also ranks dead last among all states in per-capita charitable giving. Even more telling is that 16% of New Hampshire families who report adjusted gross income in excess of $200,000 also report absolutely no charitable contributions. As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation. THOMAS H. TRUNZO JR. Orford, New Hampshire
...first assertion, that a ban on divorce is desirable for it encourages couples "to work through their differences instead of splitting up" is a gross simplification of relations between men and women. Two people who buy a house and raise a child together have plenty of forces binding them together; nobody wants to get a divorce. But, despite all these natural bonds between them, if two people cannot be happy together, they probably will (and should) pursue separation regardless of what society says. Especially when people marry young, they often change and develop a personality better suited for companionship with...
...attempts of Brodie (Jason Lee) and T.S. (Jeremy London) to win back their girlfriends on--eek!--a game show. But plot be darned; it's the texture, coarse but colorful, that counts--the pungent bustle of the action and Smith's wackily convoluted dialogue. The humor is gross-out but inoffensive, since it's rooted in whimsy, not malice. Smith finesses the sophomore jinx with sophomoric high jinks...
...Gross says Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr has hired Dr. Henry Lee, a key defense witness at the O.J. Simpson trial, to examine forensic evidence related to Foster's death, including Foster's shoes, the gun and his clothing...