Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singles--J. Gross (P) def. D. Pompan...
...taxes go up, economic activity goes down. Empires from Rome to Britain reached their fullest flower when their taxes were low, Wriston remarks, and started to self-destruct as taxes rose. Americans feel uneasy about their economy, partly because federal, state and local governments tax away 29% of the gross national product. Warns Wriston: "We are getting very close to the point where high taxes will cause the economy to deteriorate...
Last year, according to bank estimates, Sweden was one of the three Western European countries to suffer a fall in gross national product (the others: Britain and Finland), and its drop of 2.5% was the largest. At the same time, it suffered a balance of payments deficit of $3.4 billion, industrial output fell more than 4%, inflation roared along at 16% and real unemployment...
...those who agree to enter the hospital on weekends, with a weekly prize of a $4,000 vacation. Since the game was started 14 months ago, admissions have jumped by 60%, to about 85 each weekend. The hospital estimates that this brings a $2.5 million increase in gross revenue and enables it to keep its rates about 5% lower than they would otherwise...
Stunned and unbelieving, Soviet officials in the U.S. requested a meeting with Shevchenko, who was in hiding somewhere in New York State. The defecting diplomat's lawyer, Ernest Gross, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State under Truman, arranged a meeting in his Manhattan law office. In a dramatic, hour-long confrontation with Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin and Ambassador to the U.N. Oleg Troyanovsky, Shevchenko insisted that he would not return to his native land on an official visit, as Moscow had demanded. Following that meeting, the Soviets registered their first public reaction to the defection by claiming...