Word: grosse
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...last year) and murders by bombing (which the police now call "good-morning murders" because the explosions usually go off around dawn). A presidential study has concluded that virtually every retail trade booth, store, cafe and restaurant in the Russian capital pays protection money of up to 20% of gross receipts to organized crime. Resisters are beaten or killed. "In my 17 years on patrol," says police Lieut. Gennadi Groshikov, "I have never seen so much crime in Moscow; nor have I seen anything as vicious...
...Florida Gardner (2-2) Cincinnati 7:35 Roper (4-0) at Pittsburg Wagner (5-5) Chicago 8:05 Harris (3-9) at Houston Drabek (10-4) Colorado 8:35 Harris (3-9) at St Louis Sutcliffe (4-3) Philadelphia 10:05 West (2-6) at Los Angeles Gross (7-4) New York 10:05 Jones (7-7) at San Diego Krueger (0-0) Montreal 10:05 Martinez (6-4) at San Francisco Burkett...
Dukakis painted America's current health care system as inefficient, noting that the percentage of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health care is twice as much the U.S. as in other nations...
...economies are walking, but they're not running," says J. Paul Horne, an economist for the Smith Barney Shearson investment firm in Paris. Indeed, Britain has been in a recovery for the past 18 months, and its gross domestic product is expected to grow 2.7% this year. The 11 other E.U. economies, however, are only beginning to perk up. After a disastrous 15% plunge last year, European auto sales should increase 3% this year, adding $5 billion to manufacturers' revenues. Most airlines report steady gains in the sensitive indicator of intra-European traffic, up more than 9% this year, though...
...SPREADING LABOR UNREST IS also testimony to the difficulty of converting a welfare state, with cradle-to-grave protections for workers, to what Beijing's leaders call a "socialist market economy." China may boast one of the world's fastest-growing gross domestic products -- GDP shot up 13.4% in 1993 and at nearly a 13% annual rate in the first quarter of 1994 -- but at least for the short term, the process of converting to a market economy has cost China many more jobs than it has created. State-run factories, which still employ more than two-thirds of China...