Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Government economists estimated last week that the gross national product declined in February at an annual rate of 45 percent...
...percent decline matches the October-December drop for real gross national product the broadcast measure of national economic activity and marks the third negative quarter in the past tour...
...chief negotiator for the National Football League owners yesterday rejected the players proposal for a fixed percentage of the teams gross revenues, saying that while players are entitled to more money and improved benefits, the players union is not entitled to be a partner with the league...
...year. Off-topic debaters, who suddenly outnumber the on-topic traditionalists on most Northeast campuses, flit from one ephemeral subject to another every hour or so, allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant to be a cross between Groucho Marx and Daniel Webster. It rewards insult, parry and bluster. The judges' instructions for the Princeton tournament, for instance, emphasize that "witty (and only witty) heckling is encouraged...
Members accused president Gregory J. Gross '83 of paying dues for at least 16 members in exchange for their support. Gross denied the charges, which were the latest in a series of intra-club problems during the past four years...