Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years since Deng abolished the agricultural communes and opened the door to cooperative business and private enterprise, China's economy has mushroomed, growing an average of 9% a year, doubling the size of the economy every 10 years. In 1992 gross domestic product increased 12.8%, and this year it is growing at 13% despite a series of austerity measures. Though per capita income is only about $380, by some calculations of purchasing power China has the third largest economy in the world (after the U.S. and Japan) and could become No. 1 in two decades...
...dangerous road," warns Rudolf Dressler, the deputy party whip of Germany's opposition Social Democrats. Yet even welfare's staunchest defenders concede that fixes are needed. The system is going bankrupt. The huge sums Europeans pay to support it -- taxes average more than 40% of gross domestic product, vs. only 30% in Japan and the U.S. -- are not sufficient to prevent big budget deficits in many countries. Welfare expenses are soaring because the prolonged recession, the worst since the early 1970s, is pushing joblessness across Western Europe toward 12%, or 23 million people...
...Lady, starring TV miniseries idol Richard Chamberlain, opens in early December after just over seven lucrative months on the road, topping $1 million at the box office in one week and coming close to it in another. That has been rewarding for Chamberlain: his deal is 10% of the gross. About the show itself, he is less enthusiastic. He is delighted with the role and the approach of English director Howard Davies. "On the physical side," Chamberlain says, however, "the producers, Fran and Barry Weissler, have treated it like summer stock. They have tried to ride very heavily...
After fizzling in the U.S., Sliver is sizzling overseas. Paramount has nearly doubled the $37 million domestic gross abroad by inserting four steamy minutes and marketing it as "the movie America didn't want...
...similar to reviews for coal-mine leases), an end to "patenting" (buying U.S. lands for an absurd $5 an acre), federal reclamation standards (now left to states) and an 8% royalty paid to the U.S. on net production. Oil, gas and coal leases on federal land require a 12.5% gross royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry money has watered the grass roots of pro-development "wise use" groups such as People for the West. And why David Rovig, until recently president of Crown...