Word: grosse
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...down the budget deficit. Under the Administration's optimistic numbers, 1995 outlays would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...
...Office projected a whopping $284 billion shortfall for fiscal 1995, which begins next October, and $287 billion for fiscal 1996. But last month the nonpartisan CBO predicted the budget gap would narrow to $166 billion in 1996. That would trim the deficit to just 2.2% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. "Clinton's tax increases and spending cuts are largely responsible," says CBO director Robert Reischauer. "We have taken an important step along the road to fiscal responsibility...
More problems are raised by the Clintons' 1980 tax return (the White House refuses to make public their 1978-79 returns). The 1980 return shows combined gross income of $87,556 and interest payments of $13,350: $4,350 to Citizens Bank, $9,000 to "James McDougal." McDougal says both were for interest incurred in 1978-79, which would bring total interest payments claimed by the Clintons for those years to $35,350, or more than the banks received...
They are flocking, of course, primarily for the money. A star can make up to $100,000 for shooting an infomercial, in addition to royalties that can reach 5% of gross sales. With a hit product, the money gushes quickly. The Perfect Smile tooth whitener plugged by Vanna White, for example, generated more than $20 million in revenue during its first four months...
...possible to paint a naked human back without remembering Ingres's bathers, but Bowery's pose also recalls Goya's giant looming over its landscape. The conjunction of his massive and dynamically arched trunk with the waiflike body of the sleeping girl in And the Bridegroom, 1993, evokes the gross strong men and tiny dancers of Picasso's Rose Period. The lanky bodies on the iron studio bed in Two Women, 1992, are a little like Courbet's lesbians, without the Second Empire titillation. A naked man on his back, one leg up and a sock dangling from the other...