Word: grosse
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China certainly has the credentials to be the United States' chief rival: A huge military force and a strong economy. Its annual gross domestic product is growing twice as fast as ours, and its `standing army,' whose exact size is hard to pin down, surely dwarfs our volunteer force. The United States hasn't negotiated nuclear arms reductions with China the way it has with the former Soviet Union. In a conventional or nuclear showdown, the United States' only military advantage could be technology...
Relman said health spending will total nearly $950 billion this year, or $3,600 per capita. This is equivalent to 14.5 percent of the United States' gross national product (GNP), he said...
...fact of the matter is that European nations continue to have higher life expectancies--by three to five years," Roberts said. "Meanwhile, we spend 14 percent of our gross domestic product on health care while they spend eight...
When the director of the Semitic Museum revealed last week that he'd been copying his employees' fax correspondence without their knowledge, the University administration, facing a gross invasion of privacy by one of its tenured professors, said barely a word...
...mile for every $10 invested for one year. Americans have poured more than $80 billion into mutual funds so far this year, already surpassing the record $78 billion for all of 1992. That has raised the total assets of U.S. funds to $1.9 trillion, an amount equal to the gross domestic products of France and England combined...