Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy has become because it leaves little in the way of a recorded paper trail. Peter Gutmann, an economics professor at New York City's Baruch College and a close student of the subject, puts the figure at about $420 billion in 1981, or 14% of the official gross national product. Roscoe Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, told a Senate Finance subcommittee two weeks ago that the loss in tax dollars due to the underground economy came to some $97 billion last year, more than twice the level of 1976. Others within the IRS believe that...
Indisputably, injuries haven't blossomed into a cultural phenomenon in the College in general. There's a highly persuasive body of thinking that claims any rise in injuries parallels a similar rise in gross athletic activity. But there is a particular musty corner where ailments breed like morning glory. It's in the rambling yet-elusive, unwieldy net work of intramural sports...
...with a taste for perverse ritual), not that of a cynic or a sensationalist. But motive makes small difference in the end result. The film best serves the values of the dimmest lurker in the deepest shadows of the grind house: it has lots of nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore, two or three scares-and it makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone grownup enough to gain legal admission to the movie (it is rated R) will probably find himself either reduced to guffaws or wishing he had stayed home looking at his poster of Nastassia Kinski wearing...
...Poet Robert Penn Warren, 76, and his wife, Writer Eleanor Clark; Author William Styron, 56; Humorist Peter De Vries, 62; Writer Harrison Salisbury, 73; and Novelist Philip Roth, 49. Agghhh, the newly passed unincorporated business tax, a temporary, two-year, 5% levy on unincorporated businesses in Connecticut that gross more than $50,000 a year and net $15,000. The tax hits writers directly, as well as other self-employed people like grocers, doctors and dentists. Rattling quills in preparation for battle, the Connecticut round table of writers will lobby the state assembly for exemption. "We are not businesses," says...
...seeking a deal that would be unique in sport. Under Garvey's plan-endorsed by all but a handful of the 500 attending the Players Association convention in Albuquerque last week-the union would take a fixed percentage (a proposed 55%) of the N.F.L. 's annual gross revenue. The money would then be distributed to players for the common good according to a scale based on such factors as years of service, numbers of downs played and participation in playoffs and pro bowls. Some of the highest-paid players, who are more interested in issues like free agency...