Word: grosse
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...early efforts seem to have been rewarded. The A.N.C. took over an economy eviscerated by nearly two decades of sanctions and siege-mentality policies. But in 1994 South Africa's gross domestic product grew 2.3%, the largest increase in five years. Meanwhile, inflation has been running below 10%. In the 1980s fretful whites and jittery foreign investors shipped $16 billion out of the country; in the last half of 1994, however, capital inflows reached $2.4 billion, a stream of funds that will undoubtedly accelerate now that the government has jettisoned complex currency regulations that deterred foreign investors. Last year fixed...
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...magazine's attack on the academicqualifications of the women teaching French atHarvard "is a gross piece of misinformation,"Suleiman says in an interview. "The journalist waseither unbelievably ignorant or lying--in eithercase, his action was intolerable...
...controversial new book by Michael Gross, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (William Morrow; $25), is notable not so much for its revelations of drug use and other wild behavior by supermodels in the past as for the amount of knowledge the book assumes we have about models-their rocker boyfriends, their rich contracts, their past traumas. "The media have blown up models massively,'' says fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. "They have been made more special than they ever were...