Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neapolitan" spirit of the show appears, not in high religious painting or in official portraiture, but in the "minor" and decorative work: the bright frothing of shells and red coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy...
Severance taxes are nothing new. Michigan began collecting 4% on the gross value of its mineral exports in 1846, and 33 other states now impose such levies. But as fuel prices have soared, energy-rich states have increased their tariffs. Alaska, for instance, raised its oil tax from 12% to 15% last June. That was reasonable compared with Montana and Wyoming, which are exacting 30% and 17%, respectively, on coal exports. All told, coal, gas and oil severance-tax collections have ballooned from $2.1 billion in 1977 to $4 billion last year. Says Governor Brendan Byrne of New Jersey...
...addition, the ripple effects of the industry reach into just about every city, village and household in America. Airlines in the U.S. account, one way or another, for at least 3% or so of the entire American gross national product. Says George A. Warde, president of Continental Airlines of Los Angeles: "Aviation has become the predominant feature of American life, and any prolonged disruption of air traffic would cause major, major problems...
...impact of the walkout would not be great, at least for now. Said James Burnham, a White House economist and spokesman for the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "I don't believe that this strike, as it has developed, will have any measurable impact on the gross national product or any other national economic statistic...
DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He helped to make a number of landmark decisions on freedom of the press, including the reversal of obscenity convictions against three editors of the satirical magazine...