Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget deficit, which is currently running at an annual rate of $60 billion, is reined in, "Italy will be prevented from participating in the recovery of other nations." The economic indicators already show there has been no turnaround. Inflation this year is nearly 14%, unemployment is 9.5%, and the gross national product is likely to decline by .4% for the year. Basically, said Carli, the country's problems are not economic but political. Last year's $53 billion budget deficit was 58% over target, and the central bank financed it, in part, with printing presses, overshooting its monetary...
...fact, the cap would also affect people who consider themselves middle-income: single taxpayers with annual adjusted gross incomes over $39,000 and families with adjusted gross incomes over $48,000. The truly wealthy already got their bonanza a year ago, when the top rate on unearned income from investments was slashed from 70% to 50%. "If the Democrats succeed," said Marlin Fitzwater, a Treasury Department spokesman, "the real impact would be on the Middle American, because the rich and the poor already have their tax cuts...
...economies have been jolted so hard, so rapidly as Mexico's. After four years of an oil-induced boom that saw the gross national product grow at an 8% average annual rate, Mexico's economy nosedived last year when the price of oil fell. This year the G.N.P. may decline by as much as 5%. During the first three months of the year, as the government's austerity program took hold, industrial production was off 11%. Mexico's auto industry, the country's largest non-oil enterprise, suffered a 50% drop in sales. Iron...
...Face it." Hidlin says we're Afro American. You cannot deny either halt we're Black and American. And this realization is really the next step for Black film as well as Black politics. We have to be more critical, we have to get beyond gross over-simplifications and knee jerk responses to problems of race in this country. Sure we are the disenfranchised from the American Dream Capitalism and communism are both as owedly racist. But we're not moving beyond this rhetorical consciousness. What are we going to do next...
Outraged by gross disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start...