Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system has paid off. Since 1952, its gross national product has risen at an annual rate of 8.5%, while per cap ita income has climbed 4.4% a year...
This is a gross underestimation of the depth of anti-war feeling at Harvard and a revealing portrait of the lack of anti-war leadership here. Students can be mobilized into effective action when they are presented with effective means of protest. The Dow demonstration showed that students do not need the artificial hardship of a fast to arouse their political awareness...
...most concerned about a stock's price-earnings ratio-that is, its price relative to earnings per share expected in the current year. Professionals tend to assign rather low P-E ratios to companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster than...
Since 1951, federal law has required gamblers to register with the Internal Revenue Service, buy a $50 gambling-tax stamp, and pay a 10% excise tax on their annual gross bets. Another law, passed in 1934, called for the taxation and registration of the manufacture, transfer or possession of such underworld weapons as sawed-off shotguns and machine guns. Last week, in the latest of several decisions extending the protection of the Fifth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the two laws on grounds that they require persons to give information to the Government that could eventually be self...
...lead of its U.S. licenser, Avis Transport of Canada Ltd. still needles Hertz with its "We try harder" buttons. Avis in Canada tries so hard, in fact, that it can no longer continue its underdog promotion and bill itself as No. 2 in the auto-rental business. With gross revenues of over $17 million in 1967, Avis is now No. 1 in Canada...