Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have yet to see anyone mention two very important points concerning that "overly generous" Government employee annuity. First, each civil servant has a flat 7% deducted from his or her gross salary. Second, after having retired and received an amount equal to that contributed, usually about 18 to 24 months after retirement, the annuitant pays full federal (and in most cases, state) income tax. Howard R. Wesley Blue Ridge Summit...
...decades a war-shattered society in the earliest stages of industrialization has been transformed into a military superpower that produces more steel, crude oil, manganese and honey than the U.S. Another Marxist-Leninist state, East Germany, now ranks as the world's 17th industrial power (measured by gross national product), while China's Communists seem to have banished the specter of recurring famine...
Equally ominous, spending on research and development has fallen from 2% of gross national product in the mid-1960s to 1.5% today, partly because research projects often will not yield a return until well into what businessmen see as an uncertain future. Both the rise in hurdle rates and the decline in R. and D. indicate that the hired managers who run corporations today are more fearful of taking risks than the venturesome owner-managers...
...redundant--hospitals are scary, full of white, sterile halls and nurses with frigid smiles. You don't even have to bring the audience into an operating room and show scalpels slicing up bodies, brains, exposed kidneys and other assorted organs. After a while the normally squeamish fellow will cry "Gross me out!" and sit with his hand close to his face, ready to clap it over his eyes when the next bloody image appears. He may even delude himself into thinking that because he's so tense, the movie must be good. Well, that's not true; the movie just...
...service industries, and there lies the biggest growth potential. Some businessmen think the government should expand the single-track Panama Railroad to handle more traffic in the containers borne by ships too large to navigate the canal. The free-trade zone in Colon already contributes 7½ % of the gross domestic product; the zone could spread onto American-occupied land near by that would be ceded to Panama under the treaties. Panamanians are even now enlarging the country's international financial center, an outpost of 81 banks from all over that are lured by the country's easy...