Word: grosse
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more than a few months." That's the semiofficial definition of a recession, courtesy of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private think tank that since 1929 has determined the start and end dates of U.S. downturns. A clearer but clunkier standard is two straight quarters of declining gross domestic product. Or there's Harry Truman's classic definition: "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours...
...foreign winners - two Anglos, a Frenchwoman, a Spaniard and an Aussie - and an American who lives in France. All these winners are shoo-ins for Oscar nominations. So is Juno, the indie comedy that has that Little Miss Sunshine sheen and has already topped Sunshine's total box-office gross...
...When you go to make films like this, there's a certain number, studios say this is all this movie can ever gross because of these factors. The way it reads, it doesn't feel very redemptive. It's not a big gotcha kind of film. Arthur dies. I don't get a job. If you made It's A Wonderful Life today, they'd have to haul Lionel Barrymore off at the end and put him in jail. That's how the bad guy has to get got. The reason that movie's a perfect film is because...
...steady increase in the number of students admitted to University Health Services for alcohol poisoning led then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to announce the formation of the Committee to Address Alcohol and Health. Hiring an alcohol czar—Travia—was one of the committee’s recommendations...
...gross domestic product this year, $500 more than in the U.S. For the first time since the 19th century, the average Brit will earn more than his or her U.S. counterpart...