Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important service of the new natural law is that it reveals the gross and unreflective arbitrariness of public policies and proposals that--in the name of family values--fix their scornful attention on gays and lesbians. What could be easier--in the face of rampant heterosexual promiscuity, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, and skyrocketing divorce crates--than to fasten our attention on a long-despised class of people who bear no children...
...story is a nasty, gross-out take on the old stop-motion Christmas specials which run as regularly as "It's a Wonderful Life." But oddly enough, it has more in common with that movie than the Mad magazine spreads it visually resembles. Uplifting to the last, the film maintains a child's-eye-view of the wonder of Christmas. And like those television specials it is a very secular celebration of Christmas. With the blending of the holiday with Halloween, it's probably just as well that Burton steers clear of the disturbing religious overtones of the plot...
Gawande said Clinton's plan would do the most to improve these problems with Asian-American health care. For example, capping business expenses on health care at 3.5 percent of gross revenues would help the many Asian Americans employed by small businesses...
...unidentified mooner was booked for "open and gross" behavior, Pasquarello said...
...unusual for courts to rescue children from their own homes, but their parents are usually charged with gross neglect or abuse. Tanner, who plans to appeal, is losing her daughter for doing something that is perfectly legal, even if it is frowned upon by the Surgeon General. Hers is one of a growing number of cases, mainly involving children in divorce custody suits, in which judges have prohibited parents from smoking around kids who are sensitive to tobacco. Legal Times reported this month that courts in at least 11 states have dealt with the issue, almost always siding with...