Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens' center-right coalition introduced an austerity budget containing what he called "drastic" cuts in public services and hikes in value-added taxes. Italy and Belgium are the Continent's biggest spenders: their budget deficits amount to 12.6% and 11.6%, respectively, of their gross national products...
...near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss to date: 12 Ibs. And she wants to lose five more. In Beverly Hills, says the longtime star, "the three-letter words are worse than four-letter words. And the worst...
...nation's economy would be crippled by the amendment. "We've been struggling to control the business cycle for 150 years, and we're finally getting better at it," says Senator Daniel Moynihan of New York. "In the 15 years ending in 1975, our per capita gross national product after inflation doubled. We were able to do it because we had the flexibility to iron out the inevitable wrinkles in the business cycle. The amendment would destroy that ability and subject us again to the feast-or-famine mercies of economic panics." Explains liberal Economist Walter Heller...
Overall, medical costs, both public and private, rose to $287 billion. The sum represented a record 9.8% of the gross national product, averaging out to $1,225 for each American. The HHS report noted that the rapid increase in medical spending was caused in great part by the routine payment of two-thirds of all medical charges by Government programs and private insurers. "These disturbing figures," said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, "are the strongest argument for reforming the existing system of health-care-cost reimbursement...
...owners), though it is probably the most punishing sport and definitely the most profitable. Each team will gather $14 million in TV revenue alone this season, if there is a season. According to the "we are the game" game plan, the union is demanding 55% of gross revenues, to be distributed basically by seniority...