Word: grossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show), supervisors made sure that police were restrained and effective. The protesters went home quietly. A year ago, when President Johnson appeared at Century City, the cops not only violated an elementary rule of crowd control by leaving the demonstrators no avenue for exit, but inflamed feelings with gross misuse of force, helping to turn a demonstration into a riot...
Through Disorder. Economist Barbara Ward deplored the "air of platitude, lassitude and repetition" that infuses the affluent world's "war" against poverty. She called for a tax on developed countries equal to 1% of their gross national products. The lien-$17 billion-would go directly to poor lands, and would amount to only one-third of the West's annual increase in combined G.N.P., Dr. Ward contended. "It just means getting richer slower between Christmas and Easter, and that includes Lent. Let us tuck away in one corner of our Christian memory the delicious fact that the English...
...Lyons and its director, Roger Planchon, have scandalized French traditionalists by taking gross liberties with the classics to give them contemporary credence. A U.S. audience is more likely to feel the faint shock of cultural lag. Freshly attuned to the theater of tribal intimacy, with its skin-to-skin actor-audience confrontations and its stereophonic barrage of sound, a playgoer may be startled to see a stylized drama in which each line is pruned, each gesture sculptured, each scene framed...
...classic example of underestimation," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist for the National Industrial Conference Board, "is the Trillion-Dollar Economy." In terms of gross national product, the U.S. was not expected to reach this thousand-billion-dollar mark until about 1975. It now appears that the figure will be achieved either in 1970 or 1971. And a tremendous number of business and economic decisions rest upon accurate estimates of the G.N.P...
...strengthened the CATV bargaining position when negotiations resume. The cable owners are now no longer threatened with a demand for retroactive payments, and future fees might well be less onerous than CATV had expected. One possible settlement scheme: each CATV firm would contribute 2% or, so of its gross into a pool to be divided annually by the copyright-holding film studios and networks...