Word: grosse
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...reduce the U.S. deficits. At the end of last year, China officially adjusted the size of its economy in an attempt to better reflect the plethora of activity taking place that wasn't counted in previous Soviet-central-planning-inspired statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past France's into fifth place worldwide - just behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain. Zhu said that the new number is a better reflection of reality, but still doesn't take into account small private companies and service firms, including retailers, with fewer...
...Spear, the story about the martyrdom of five missionaries in Ecuador 50 years ago and its long-term repercussions, which scored the country's eighth-highest box office gross at cinemas ($4.7 million) last weekend, represents a third model. Like the other films, it has benefited from a full-court-press marketing effort enlisting evangelical opinion-makers (the press kit includes a literal A-Z list of endorsers) outreach to churches, and a campaign to facilitate the buying of blocks of seats by believers. But whereas the Passion and the Lion spoke directly or indirectly to the New Testament story...
...over by it, the King championed various reforms, such as allowing in foreign tourists, television and the Internet, while limiting their impact in order to preserve the country's values and traditions. Mindful of some pernicious side effects of economic growth, he introduced the idea of "Gross National Happiness"?taking account of such intangibles as cultural integrity and spiritual well-being?as an alternative to Gross National Product. Mark Mancall, a history professor at Stanford University and a regular visitor to Bhutan, says the King's initiatives are "an important social and political experiment in today's world...
...course, the movie's stars are all hetero. "No one paying attention will fail to know that Heath Ledger just had a child by the woman who plays his wife," says Larry Gross, director of the U.S.C. Annenberg School for Communication, "and that Jake has been dating Kirsten Dunst." But then, every macho Hollywood star is straight--or must pretend to be. "The film says it's terrible that you couldn't be openly gay as a sheepherder in Montana in the '60s, but you can't be openly gay as a successful young actor in Hollywood in 2006," says...
...mail last night, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote, “We have been looking at the viability of Massachusetts Hall as a freshman dormitory, and exploring the possibility of moving students to better space next year.” But he added that “nothing has been decided...