Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open water, her hull a glimmering swath of royal blue, red and gold, with the royal coat of arms on the bow and the royal cipher on the stern. The yacht's 12,000-h.p. twin-shaft turbine engines are capable of propelling her 5,769 gross tonnage at a sprightly 21 knots. Her 510-ton fuel capacity can sustain a 2,800-mile voyage without stopover...
...cuts in social spending. Income tax reductions will prompt enough saving and investment to spur productivity growth. In any case, Stein and like-minded economists point out, even in fiscal 1986, at the end of Reagan's planned military buildup, defense outlays will consume only about 7% of the gross national product?no more than in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the U.S. enjoyed noninflationary prosperity...
...legal fees totaled some $18.6 billion. According to the Commerce Department, that figure was up to $23.4 billion last year, nearly 1% of the gross national product. Top big-city law firms like Chicago's Reuben & Proctor currently bill clients as much as $200 an hour, up from a high of $150 in 1975. Superstar trial lawyers like Boston's F. Lee Bailey and San Francisco's Melvin Belli regularly command flat fees that work out to as much as $300 an hour. New York's Louis Nizer, whose clients have included Blacklist Victim John Henry...
...finders can gross up to $100,000 a year, and the number of finders in the I.E.C.A. has increased from 15 in 1976 to about 60 this year. Not everyone is happy with their work, however. One Chicago headmaster contemptuously refers to counselors as charlatans who play on the anxiety of parents. Julia Whitcombe, a Los Angeles mother of two, took her daughter to a counselor. Says she: "He did his testing, took the money and came up with nothing." At Lake Forest Academy in Illinois, Admissions Coordinator Jacqueline Leinbach suggests that parents can save the fee by going...
...results: 17% died and 40% of the 288 survivors had surgical complications. Nationwide, the mortality and morbidity rates for heart surgery are, respectively, about 2% and 8%. The kidney transplant ban results from charges of "gross incompetence and negligence" leveled at Chief Kidney Transplant Surgeon Satya Chatterjee by Dr. William Kirby, a former senior resident in urology at U.M.C., and Nurse Kathleen Whittemore, the hospital's former transplant coordinator...