Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social welfare. Between 1950 and 1974, public and private expenditures for social programs and services (including pensions, Social Security, health, education and welfare) climbed from 13.4% to 27.3% of the Gross National Product...
...again invited foreign investment. But the response has not even been as loud as a whisper. Last year, in order to pay off short-term debts, more capital flowed out of the country than into it. The balance of trade deficit is now equal to a fifth of the gross national product ($13.7 billion a year). This is something close to an economic impossibility, and Egypt is technically bankrupt. It is kept alive only by massive handouts and loans from abroad, mostly from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait...
Simple overweight is distinguished medically from gross obesity, a more serious condition that is often more difficult to treat. But even plain excess weight is almost universally believed to contribute to premature heart attacks and to be a prime cause of adult diabetes. Data compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in 1960 showed that more than half of American adults then weighed 10% or more over the ideal for their height?a situation that the new data seem to show has grown even worse. In other words, despite the growing number of joggers, tennis nuts, weight watchers and organic...
...these days. Though martial law has resulted in the loss of considerable political freedom, the Philippine economy after five years of stern rule appears to be performing relatively well. According to the government, unemployment has dropped from 7% to 4.5%, inflation is down from 45% to 7% annually, real gross national product last year increased by 7.6%. There is also widespread appreciation of the law-and-order the regime has established. Foreign businessmen, for instance, have been attracted by liberal investment terms and the fact that as a result of martial law there are no more rowdy private armies harassing...
...Name: Sector (up to $50), in which the computer plays the part of a hunted submarine, and Milton Bradley's bleeping, buzzing Electronic Battleship (also up to $50)-and customers trying to buy them. Games are the most important segment of the toy market. Manufacturers are expected to gross some $450 million in 1977, up 10% from the previous year. Last season TV action games of the Pong variety were the electronic craze, and manufacturers Fairchild and Atari are back on the market with more versatile and more expensive cassette models...