Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...projections show it rising again in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. And though most economists think the trouble is not red ink as such but too much of it, an amendment attempting, say, to hold deficits to no more than 2.5% of gross domestic product would be too complicated even to think about. A balanced-budget amendment probably could be stopped now only if politicians convinced the public that they can enforce fiscal discipline without it -- and it is getting awfully late for that...
...Thirty years ago to the day of Gingrich's speech last week, L.B.J. urged Congress to pass Medicare, one of the many programs he promised would "eliminate poverty from the land." They haven't, of course, and that's what spurs the G.O.P. critique. Between 1965 and 1992, the gross national product grew 53.2%. Yet 38 million Americans (including 14.6 million children, or 1 of every 5 kids) still live in poverty -- a higher percentage of the population than when L.B.J. left office in 1969. Therefore, say the Republicans, the war failed, and its programs should be cut or wiped...
...that fastidious filmmakers retreat in dismay muttering, "Does he mean, like, bathroom jokes?" Ignoring the advice, they end up dying out there with cute, cautious comedies like Speechless and I.Q. (not to mention spineless farces like Mixed Nuts). Meanwhile, Dumb and Dumber becomes the most popular movie in America. "Gross-out grosses," its rivals may sniff, and they would not be wrong. But so what? The fact is that D and D -- in comparison with which Jim Carrey's other pictures look as if they were scripted by Oscar Wilde -- makes you laugh out loud for almost its entire running...
...Miguel de la Madrid and continued by his successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas got foreign-debt payments down to a fraction of the annual budget and performed the ultimate miracle of lowering Mexico's inflation rate from 157% to less than 10% by last year. By 1989 the gross domestic product was growing again in per capita terms. A debt-reduction agreement the next year started foreign money flowing back in, especially from the U.S. With the passage of NAFTA, which made Mexico's prospects brighter still, the money continued to pour...
...scandal in the agency's history. Woolsey has estimated that Ames compromised more than 100 operations, which led to the death of at least 10 Soviet agents who had been working for the U.S. A CIA inspector general's report last September accused the agency's operations directorate of gross mismanagement for taking so long to uncover Ames. Senior CIA officials privately urged Woolsey to fire or demote some agency officers even before the inspector general finished his investigations. "It was the biggest espionage case we ever had," one of the officials told TIME. "We told him, 'You have...