Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Iowa's Representative H. R. Gross was in higher dudgeon than usual. "I couldn't believe my eyes," he told the House, "when I saw the Reverend Moyers, White House press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does...
...also ready for the mass market. Having already launched a women's line, he decided to branch out in male fashions as well, two years ago began producing a full line of custom and ready-to-wear men's clothes. His men's fashions now gross $8,000,000 a year, five times the gross of his women's line. Among Cardin's customers: Gregory Peck, Cecil Beaton, Yul Brynner and George Hamilton...
...academic incumbents. This objection has little, though some, merit. Money is not the sole criterion dividing students from non-students in American society, and abolishing the 2-S might lower the general standard of education somewhat. But this unverifiable and hardly earth-shaking possibility cannot counterbalance the gross injustice of the present system. Concern for national interest should override concern for equity only when the national interest in question is urgent and substantial. This objection also overlooks the fact that most drafted students will return to their studies in several years. We are discussing here chiefly the distribution of inconvenience...
Ackley's prime point was that, in the five years of the U.S. prosperity explosion, profits have climbed twice as fast as the gross national product, personal income or wages, and they should not continue to do so. Such a profitable performance, said Ackley, means that "either prices have been raised more than costs, or prices have not been reduced where costs have fallen." And so, if businessmen continue to raise prices to increase their profit margins, then labor will make far more extravagant demands-and inflation will take off unfettered...
...page report, printed in four colors, one for each of the four languages of the Common Market, projects an annual growth rate of 4.3% in the gross national product of the Six in the period 1966-70, compared to 4.9% for 1960-65. Germany, because of its labor shortage, will be well below the average with a growth rate...