Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse...
E.A.T., a pricey Manhattan food specialty shop (with a branch in Troy, Mich.), flies in Arava melons ($4 each) from Israel, eight varieties of wild mushrooms ($8 to $15 per Ib.) from France and white truffles ($17.50 per oz.) from Italy. Such delicacies are instant sellouts, boosting E.A.T.'s gross 50% (to $1.5 million) over last year's total...
...Board only in being slightly more optimistic. But the members of the TIME Board of Economists have a special claim to attention: the predictions they made a year ago have been proved right, in one case to the last decimal point. Last December board members forecast that the real gross national product-that is, total production of goods and service discounted for inflation-would rise during 1977 by 4.8%; when all the numbers are added up, that forecast probably will be close to the bull's-eye. They also predicted that the unemployment rate...
Scott is why they are there, and Jeremy Geidt, Michael Gross, Max Wright and Stephen Rowe convey that with rare skill and sensitivity. Unfortunately, Hill, while decent as a saint, lacks the lightning that fires blind fealty in other...
...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...