Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minister Arthur Costa e Silva was elected President by Congress in 1966, Brazilians listened to his promise to "humanize" the bureaucracy, promote a "Year of Education" and declare war on inflation. He did manage to slash the annual rate of inflation from 40% to 25%. The nation's gross national product edged up by 5%. Brazil's trade in coffee, cotton and other agricultural products came into balance...
...from the Commerce Department, the union has helped finance firms in half a dozen cities. Using such aid, former Barber Dennis Taylor, 29, has built his year-and-a-half-old Magnificent Natural Products Inc., a Los Angeles cosmetics manufacturer, into a thriving concern that expects to gross at least $500,000 this year...
...Tokyo market's performance reflected the increasing strength of the Japanese economy. This year, despite a 6% rate of inflation, Japan may over take West Germany as the No. 3 nation in terms of Gross National Product, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Japanese government has already twice revised G.N.P. growth estimates for 1968, from the original 7% to 8.5% and, recently, to 9.6%. Exports are expected to reach $13.3 billion, a 23% increase over 1967, and thus turn last year's balance of payments deficit of $535 million into a surplus of about $750 million...
...fourth straight month. That advance lifted incomes to an annual average 9% above that of the first eight months of 1967. Unemployment shrank to 3½% of the labor force, matching a 15-year low. Adding up the figures, the Commerce Department conceded last week that the gross national product-the total of everything produced in the U.S.-will show "a substantial increase" during the third quarter...
...back the well-justified boast that it brought Wall Street to Main Street, the company points to its 1,400,000 individual customers, nearly one-third more than any other stockbroker has. Their trading, along with that of 3,000 institutional customers, last year helped Merrill Lynch to gross $369 million and net a record $54.6 million...