Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Leo states that feminists are "willing to gamble with the safety of the woman in the street" simply because many feminists advocate immediate physical resistance to rape. This is a gross oversimplification of the difficult question of whether one risks death by trying to fight off an attack. Feminists are not gambling with any woman's safety. We are trying to teach women to fight back with their most effective weapons, their strength and their wits...
...Wayne Gross slammed a three-run homer and Mike Norris hurled a four-hitter as the Oakland A's blanked the Kansas City Royals 4-0, in the first game of the American League West division playoffs yesterday in Kansas City...
...Gross--a .206 hitter on the year--blasted a 2-1 Dennis Leonard fastball over the right-field fence in the fourth after George Brett's throwing error kept the inning alive...
Personal Software. Daniel Fylstra, 30, who co-founded the firm with $500 three years ago, saw sales rise to $4 million last year and expected his gross to triple this year. Now he believes that sales will be "substantially more" than that. The company's first product was the game program Microchess, but its bestseller is VisiCalc, a $200 program used by businessmen to make financial forecasts. Total sales of it to date: 150,000 copies...
...Hoovervilles. But the number of Americans who can afford first-class housing is dwindling. The median price of a new home has gone from $20,000 in 1965 to $70,000 in 1981. The traditional budget formula said that a family should spend no more than one-quarter of gross income on housing. If they obey that rule, less than 10% of Americans can afford a median-priced house...