Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Island Railroad by an average of 25%. The MTA also threatened to hike fares to $1 by mid-July unless the state legislature covered an estimated shortfall of $331 million The legislature finally approved a Band-Aid package of new taxes last week, including a .75% tax on the gross receipts of oil companies, that will raise $800 million over the next two years. But MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch is making no promises that fares will not go up again before...
Clausen insists that the U.S. should continue to support the World Bank, if only out of self-interest. Says he: "The stronger those Third World countries become, the more they can absorb our products, and that means jobs at home." About 12% of the U.S. gross national product already depends upon foreign trade, and the figure seems certain to grow still higher by the end of the 1980s...
...prosperity achieved under their center-right predecessors. Not only was France's 12.5% inflation and 7.2% unemployment still comparatively mild, by world standards, but more important, the country has one of Europe's most dynamic and resilient economies. Over the past 13 years, for example, the growth of the gross national product has averaged 4.2%, compared with West Germany's 3.5% and the U.S.'s 2.7%. In the industrialized world, only Japan has a higher rate of investment and savings. Yet the very success of France's state-led capitalist economy has heightened the appeal of state-led socialism. Explains...
...wife of 40 years. Joan Wight- Helen in the books- is a handsome, white-haired woman who does not suffer tourists lightly: "Alf is too kind. I send them packing." And there have been lampoons of the now familiar Herriot style. Monty Python kidded the title verse: "All things gross and angrenous. All creatures gross and squat." Nature Writer Edward Hoagland parodied the books in the New York Times: " 'It's time t'awd bitch was up,' I said. I put my arm up her lug end to untwist her uterus...
...result is gross underinvestment in creating the on-the-job skills necessary for industrial success. Blue-collar workers are traditionally trained on the job, but with today's high turnover rates no firm wants to invest in training its work force since there is a very high probability that the workers will soon leave for another job. For each firm it is cheaper to bid, with higher wages, a skilled worker away from other firms, but this obviously does not work for the economy as a whole. The result is a perpetual shortage of skilled blue-collar workers whenever...