Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seemingly, Anderson has lost sight of his own line of argument somewhere between these statistics and the gross generalizations which follow, for he never shows whether private enterprise could succeed where public enterprise has failed--in providing decent homes for all. In what kinds of housing have these impressive improvements in quality been achieved? Has unaided private enterprise been eager to build in slum neighborhoods? And if not, is there any evidence that private builders left to themselves would ever attack these hard-core housing problems...
...from 90 to 50 in 20 months. The cost of living went up 45% last year, has climbed 30% more this year. The government's proposed $258 million budget for 1965 includes a planned deficit of $29 million; others say it will be more like $83 million. The gross national product over the last six measured years (1955-61) expanded only a paltry $8 million, though projected figures at the start of the period assumed a $70 million gain...
Nevertheless, the government firmly intends to maintain its ceilings, is adding a carrot to match its stick. If restaurateurs hold the line, their taxes-which of course they only pay sporadically anyway-maybe scaled down from the present 8.5% of gross turnover to the 4.25% enjoyed by less artistic businesses...
...staff in Commerce's Office of Business Economics. Basically, the staff divided U.S. industry into 86 groups, painstakingly put precise numbers on the intricate interplay of sales and orders among them and tied the whole works for the first time to such basic statistical yardsticks as national income and gross national product. It thus created the first really 3-D view of the U.S. economy. "Input-output," says George Jaszi, head of the Office of Business Economics, "is a bird's-eye view of the economy, like looking at the countryside from an airplane...
Although the disputes strained Europe's unity, the French seemed unlikely to go so far as to break up the Common Market-if only because they have gained so much from it. Since 1958, the six members' gross national products have grown by an average 30% (v. the U.S.'s 23%, Britain's 16%), and their exports to one another have doubled. France has done much better than the average; its exports to the Market countries have nearly tripled, to $3.1 billion. If France is too protectionist to want any meaningful tariff cuts, it nonetheless could...