Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...
...argued that exports, which rose from $22 billion in 1963 to $33.5 billion this year, have accounted for a remarkably steady 4% or so of the nation's gross national product. But just keeping lip with the G.N.P. is not getting ahead in the world. Since 1960, the U.S. share of world exports-one of the best measures of the nation's global economic power-has shrunk from more than 25% to around...
High-Stakes Monopoly. Other casino operators are watching closely to see if Circus Circus is a foretaste of what is to come in Las Vegas. Owners are finding that, though gross gambling revenues are still growing (up 14.3% last year), their profits are being cut by what Sarno calls "the spiraling cost of customer attraction." A top entertainer like Frank Sinatra can command $100,000 a week; a production of Fiddler on the Roof costs $70,000 a week...
...shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries also...
Long a major Asian banking, insurance and warehousing center, Singapore last year moved ahead of London into fourth place among the world's ports. Its gross national product rose by 11% to an estimated $1 billion, making the tiny republic (pop. 2,000,000) the third richest on a per capita basis in Asia, after Japan and Hong Kong. Recently, Singapore applied for full currency convertibility under the rules of the International Monetary Fund. That means that its dollar is healthy enough to be freely exchangeable with other currencies, and that Lee is succeeding in his program for survival...