Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflicts, New Hampshire courts had long followed the law of "the place where the injury occurred." And Vermont is one of the 28 states with a "guest statute," holding that a "host" driver is liable to his "guest" passengers only if their injuries are caused by his "gross and willful negligence." In New Hampshire, which has no guest statute, a guest may recover if his injuries are caused by his host's simple "lack of ordinary care under the circumstances...
...firm's extraordinary progress, from his first twelve-page catalogue to the slick 619-page book now circulating. In a country where retailers regularly mark up their goods 35% to 40% and sometimes even 100% , Neckermann makes do with a profit margin of 1% or 2%. His gross sales last year were $275 million...
Blaming Brown. Actually, it is a wonder that anyone wants the job. California, already the nation's most populous state (19 million), has to cope with explosive problems of growth unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Its annual gross income is greater than that of any full-fledged nation save Russia, West Germany, Britain, France and the U.S. itself. Yet the urgent demands of overloaded schools, insufficient highways, restive racial minorities and ever-rising taxes forever plague the state. Indeed, any headache that afflicts any other state throbs even harder in California-and many of its quandaries have...
Less Than Korea? The cost of Viet Nam may seem small in relation to the overall economy: total defense spending amounts to only 8% of the gross national product, less than the average ratio during the 1950s and little more than half the Korean war peak of 14½%. Yet, unlike the Korea war, which hit when the U.S. still had plenty of production slack and more than 5% unemployment, the Viet Nam war is an added burden on a substantially full-employment, full-production economy that has been expanding for 51 years...
...politely avoid mentioning that Mr. Kozintzev composes for wide-screen as if it were small, sometimes filling the side quarters with people or walls so that he's left with a small screen to compose on in the middle. But let us land on three of his gross blunders--one frequent. That one is the swerving track inward, which he uses as an illiterate uses exclamation points. It makes you feel like a lame third-baseman charging a bunt...