Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOAN-SHARKING OR USURY nets several billions?it is impossible to say how many?in revenue for the Mob. Dollar for dollar, usury is LCN's best investment; though the gross is lower than it is in gambling, profit is higher. Interest rates commonly run at 20% per week, or, in the Mob's words, "six for five"?borrow $5 on Monday and pay back $6 by Saturday noon, the normal deadline. Borrowers are frequently gamblers who have lost heavily or hope to make a big strike, but they also include factory workers, businessmen on the verge of bankruptcy...
...Polansky saw patients 300 or more days a year, his daily gross averaged about $540. In a day, he could see 54 patients at an average fee of $10, and give each of them twelve to 15 minutes-which is just about what most patients get from most doctors...
...insight the hard way-through his own dashed hopes and disillusionments. His distinguished teaching career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts had ended abruptly when he insisted on the need for students to draw from nude models. His great medical pictures, The Agnew Clinic and The Gross Clinic-which would serve as touchstones for a later generation of realists-had been greeted with critical jeers. He rarely sold a painting, subsisting on a small private income. The year before he met the clerics, his father had died. Eakins himself was an agnostic, but in the intellectual companionship and quiet...
...fails" that go 60 days or more uncorrected. Some firms have been forced to borrow to satisfy this requirement, and high interest charges eat further into profits. For Philadelphia's Drexel Harriman Ripley, Inc., for example, interest paid on borrowed money amounted to 13% of gross revenues in the first half...
Cribbing or Research? Back in France, the narrative that Maziere created out of his far-flung findings has become an astonishing bestseller (some 230,000 copies). But Maziere drew the rage and scorn of some experts who accused him of everything from gross over-popularization to out-and-out plagiarism. In fact, it is clear upon examination of the texts that Maziere has clearly borrowed large chunks, word for word, from Father Englert...