Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test of "unreasonable conduct" on the part of publishers, as promulgated by Harlan, seemed a promise of new problems. "If this precedent is followed," warned Black, "it means that we must in all libel cases hereafter weigh the facts and hold that all papers and magazines guilty of gross writing or reporting are constitutionally liable, while they are not, if the quality of the reporting is approved by a majority of us. It strikes me that the court is getting itself in the same quagmire in the field of libel in which it is now helplessly struggling in the field...
...Donnelley Corp., another subsidiary, puts out such bibles as telephone books and the Official Airline Guide. The parent company also operates a mutual fund, Moody's Fund, Inc., will open up a second this week known as Moody's Capital Fund. Altogether, Dun & Bradstreet's gross income last year was $210 million, which is a lot more than most university presidents get to handle...
...when the last shipments of matériel and talent-ranging from vitamins to valuta, feed grains to corporate planners-reached the Continent, the U.S. had pumped $13.5 billion into 16 European nations,* an amount that averaged a bit more than 1% of the U.S.'s gross national product each year. The major beneficiaries were Great Britain ($3.2 billion), France ($2.7 billion), Italy ($1.5 billion) and West Germany ($1.4 billion). Washington insisted that U.S. aid had to be organized on a pan-European basis rather than as a congeries of bilateral arrangements. Thus, with the same economics-before-politics...
Today Western Europe is the wealthiest complex of nations in the world, with a combined gross national product of $508 billion, v. the East Bloc's $443 billion. Only two former Marshall Plan members-Greece and Turkey-are still receiving U.S. economic aid, most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve...
...dietetic Burl Ives, is known as the "witch doctor" among his friends and as a photographic innovator throughout the movie industry. His stunning underwater camera work for Thunderball won an Oscar last year. And in the past four years he has built his own company's gross from $750,000 to $12 million. About the only mishap Tors has suffered occurred after he had filmed Namu, the Killer Whale. He had made friends with the five-ton mammal by spending all-night vigils floating on a log in Namu's pen while squeaking to him in "whale talk...