Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, economic conditions in the area are going from bad to worse. Business in El Salvador is in catastrophic shape. The nation's gross domestic product has plunged about 20% since 1978, and analysts expect a further slide this year. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of guerrilla warfare have nearly bankrupted the country and have destroyed tens of millions of dollars' worth of crops, roads, bridges and power stations. Says Georgetown University's Georges Fauriol: "The Administration will have a very hard time convincing any businessman who has to respond to his shareholders that...
...Guido (Cameron Johann) and three of his classmates into the rites of sex to the beat of tambourines and the priapic chant Be Italian, Intermittently spotlighted during the show is a quartet of women dubbed "The Germans," who would have been called "The Beef Trust" in vaudeville, a gross physical mockery...
...tenants' union, the results of the survey were never used by the administrators who oversee the University's residential properties, which comprise the largest single portfolio owned by any Cambridge landlord. Members of the union were nevertheless determined that the survey findings, which they said demonstrated a "gross form of mismanagement" by Harvard Real Estate (HRE), be considered. The tenants have an economic interest in keeping down fuel costs because under rent control board regulations landlords may pass energy costs on to residents in the form of higher rents...
...Mafia family. His son Charley is underboss and chief enforcer for the family, a geratic Brooklyn Mob headed by Corrado Prizzi, 84. Charley, the anti-hero of Prizzi's Honor, is somewhat deficient in the paternal paranoia that has helped earn the gang international clout and an annual gross income of $1.7 billion. However, he took out his first Prizzi foe when he was only 13, and has been earning great respect ever since. He is unswervingly loyal, has a voice like "a talking brewery horse" and boasts "the best bowels of anyone in the Prizzi family...
Inventory liquidation has been driving the economy steadily lower since last December. Week after week, in wave after wave, companies have been emptying warehouses, trimming stockpiles and cutting back on orders from suppliers. This was the major cause of the 3.9% drop in the gross national product during the first quarter. Says Otto Eckstein, chairman of the Data Resources Inc. economic forecasting firm: "The most significant factor behind the economic decline during the past three months has overwhelmingly been business's huge liquidation of inventories...