Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Miller spelled out some of the reasons for concern: "The Japanese spend 20% of their gross national product in fixed investment, and Germany spends 15%, and we are spending 8% or 9%." He drew an analogy with 16th century Spain, which "became the principal beneficiary of the discovery of the New World in the form of large amounts of gold and silver, introducing into Spain huge amounts of unearned purchasing power. It was spent to build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when...
...reduced health costs to the ever-increasing rates of the U.S. In 1963, 4.3 per cent of the federal budget was spent on health care. Today it has risen to 12.7 per cent. In 1983 it will be 13.3 per cent and a "whopping" 9.7 per cent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Canada, on the other hand, managed to contain its expenditures on health care from 6.8 per cent of the GNP when their national health insurance plan was passed in 1968 to 7 per cent in 1978. Today, health care expenditures comprise 8.8 per cent...
While the figures are staggering, there are still a few ways at least to soften the college tuition crunch. The College Board notes that almost any family, even one with a gross income in excess of $35,000 a year, might be eligible for some combination of grants or loans, depending on the number of children in college, among other financial considerations...
Working summers cutting wheat and October through Christmas harvesting soybeans in Mississippi, the family should gross nearly $400,000. But on-the-road expenses gobble up more than a third of that. The bank, which holds mortgages on $100,000 worth of trucks, takes...
...million for his work on Godfather I. For Godfather II he received a $100,000 script fee plus a promise of 10% of the net?which he is yet to see. There is another $1 million, minus legal expenses, for Earthquake, and $350,000 plus 5% of the gross on Superman I and II, the forthcoming spectaculars about The Man of Steel. On top of this, Puzo will earn $250,000 in increments and a gross percentage for his treatment for Godfather III. The paperback millionaire estimates that in the past ten years he has made at least $6 million...