Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, we all already knew that the fuzzy creatures that prowl up and down Sesame Street really just represent the gross extremities of liberalism. All that emphasis on cooperation, tolerance and sharing is just a ploy to lure toddlers into embracing Communism. The producers once even dared to portray an interracial couple, Gordon and Maria, who spend their days talking to all sorts of funny-looking monsters. No wonder the American family has disintegrated...
...despite Gingrich's protestations to the contrary, there clearly is a way to lift the financial burden off of Washington and preserve PBS. As independent public television producer Alvin Perlmutter pointed out in a New York Times editorial, simply charging commercial TV and radio broadcasters one percent of their gross annual revenues for the use of their channels would raise $260 million--just $25 million shy of the $285 million granted annually by Washington...
...time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life -- at once harder and more innocent than ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...
More like a complete overhaul. Even before the military grabbed power in September 1991, Haiti had the fewest telephones, least electric power and lowest gross domestic product in the western hemisphere. After three years of terrorist misrule, real GDP fell one-third, income dropped to $205 per capita, and the gourde lost half its value. The government deficit soared to 10 times its former level, while revenues dropped by half: by some estimates, only 2,500 people in a population of nearly 7 million paid income taxes...
...maybe it is that the editors of The Crimson want to see a Cambridge which is unaffordable for the low-income families, graduate students and those "sixties left-overs" which now form part of the city's social fabric. --Aeyal Gross Harvard Law School