Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gross incompatibility and lack of harmony in your pas de deux (cover and coverage) starring the great Nureyev [April 16]! In your marvelous coverage, Rudi is a colorful, vibrant and electrifying creature. Sidney Nolan's Rudi, however, is about as exciting as a dish of cold oatmeal...
...first quarter of 1965, the gross national product was up by $14.5 billion over the last quarter of 1964. This was one of the biggest quarterly gains in U.S. history, and was in line with Ackley's earlier estimate of a record G.N.P. of $660 billion...
Javits foresees a barrier-free trading area stretching from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego and embracing a population of 220 million, with an annual gross national product of $75 billion (v. the European Common Market's 180 million population and $250 billion G.N.P.). The area's sales potential would be so great that Latin Americans would be encouraged to manufacture their raw materials into finished goods themselves, thus not only creating new wealth and new jobs but also freeing the area from its forced dependence on exporting raw materials and importing finished goods. Javits envisions ultimate...
Donovan succeeds Calvin Gross, who two years ago was lured to New York from Pittsburgh after earning a reputation for creative educational innovation there. But in New York, Gross never learned the knobs and levers of the system, and thus proved unable to formulate or push ideas fast enough to satisfy the board. Now on three-month terminal leave, he still turns up daily at his office to mull over personal matters and help his lawyers fight for a hefty severance settlement...
...Smile." Donovan has a more outgoing personality to sell such ideas than had Gross. Hissed by the city's ever-outraged pressure groups, he has remained cool. He is a persuasive, fact-conscious speaker. His tenor delivery of Galway Bay at public dinners sets Irish eyes to smiling; his show tunes at bar mitzvahs please Jewish friends. A joiner, he is an American Legionnaire, an executive board member of the National Council of Catholic Men, and a member of Citizens for Decent Literature. A sign on his desk reads...