Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 1976. In the economic field, Lopez Portillo's performance has been quite creditable. By holding down public spending and wages, he has been able to stabilize the erratic peso, slow inflation, reverse the flight of capital and stimulate private investment. After several sluggish years, Mexico's gross national product is now increasing by about 6% annually. Lopez Portillo has also promoted a certain degree of political liberalization, although his Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) continues to dominate Mexican politics as it has for the past 50 years. To no one's surprise, the P.R.I, swept up some...
...anonymous sex in such public places as crowded subways and buses. As Stern points out, this requires some gymnastic ability and an adherence to certain unwritten rules: when one man tried to strike up a postcoital acquaintance, the woman turned on him in fury and accused him of "gross immorality...
...reason for Peking's retreat to more modest goals became clear during the two-week session of the congress, when precise statistics on the Chinese economy were released for the first time since 1959. They showed that the country had a gross national product of $360 billion in 1978, compared with $2.107 trillion for the U.S. The average Chinese buys only $6 worth of goods per month, excluding food. Out of a population of an estimated 960 million, only about 95 million people receive regular wages. For the others, who are paid partly in rice and other grains, Chen...
...combination of brashness and tenderness would work perfectly in a romantic comedy, something along the lines of Foul Play. Instead, Murray has tried to emulate Belushi: Meatballs is an Animal House ripoff, transplanted from the campus to a summer camp. The film demands that its star be wild and gross-characteristics for which Murray has no great affinity...
...mind and his preparations for a story were legitimate subjects of inquiry, this evoked visions of thought police; and yet it was only a consequence of an earlier pro-press ruling that a public figure, in order to be able to sue for libel, must prove "actual" malice and gross neglect on the part of the journalist. Most newsmen do not demand confidentiality of sources automatically, but only when naming sources or delivering notes is not strictly necessary to meet the specific needs of a defendant. (Many judges in fact agree with this view...