Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That fire extinguishers "having a gross weight not exceeding 40 pounds shall be installed so that the top of the extinguisher is not more than five feet above the floor...
Some 70% of the 2.7 million farms left in the U.S. (down from 4 million in 1960) gross $20,000 or less each year, and the people who work them should not be classed as farmers at all. Some have failed to make a living growing crops
...capitalistic ventures can rival the return on invest ment of a movie megabit, and National Lampoon's Animal House is, in more ways than one, a gross example. Produced for a meager $2.7 million and promoted with a fur ther $4.5 million, the film so far has taken in more than $50 million. Producer Matty Simmons, chairman of the company that publishes the raucous monthly National Lam poon, expects revenues to top $80 million by year's end, not counting foreign distribution. That would place the film-among the top 15 movie earners of all time...
...Magazine before he launched National Lampoon, has three movies to go on his four-film-minimum contract with Universal Pictures. The bankroller and distributor of Animal House, Universal recouped its initial in vestment a few weeks after the film's opening. National Lampoon's cut of the gross - 5% at first, but now and henceforth 17.5% - translates into $3 million...
Because of their savings incentives foreign countries invest much more than the U.S. does. Scarcely 10% of America's gross national product goes into private capital formation, but West Germany invests 15% of its G.N.P. and Japan 21%. In consequence, their productivity gains are higher, and they are beating the stripes off Uncle Sam in world markets...