Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depressed older cities were hard put to find money either for maintenance or for new construction. With teachers, welfare recipients, garbage collectors and senior citizens all expecting higher salaries or more services, government priorities tipped toward meeting social demands. Since 1965, the percentage of the U.S.'s gross national product devoted to investment in public works has dropped from 3.6% to 1.7%, a 52.8% decline. Like a pensioner gradually spending his lifetime's savings the U.S. is living off its public capital and little by little exhausting...
...Eruzione, 2b 3 0 0 0 Pat O'Reilly, dh 4 0 0 0 Dave Stenhouse, c 3 0 0 2 Jim Vest, lf 4 0 1 0 John Ahern, rf 4 0 0 0 Tom Scannell, 3b 4 0 0 0 John Gross, ss 3 0 1 0 Ed Scannell, lb 2 1 1 0 Oino Casagrande, 2b 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 4 2 Paul Chicarello, dh 3 1 0 0 Bruce Weller, cf 3 0 1 0 Brad Bauer, ss 2 2 1 0 Vinnle Martelli, lf 4 1 2 3 Don Allard...
...immense. The President wants to boost the Pentagon's budget from the $171.2 billion allocated by the Carter Administration this year to $226.3 billion in fiscal year 1982. That amount is twice as much as Saudi Arabia earned from crude oil exports last year and twice the gross national product of Switzerland. Moreover by 1986 Reagan wants to increase the defense budget to a staggering $374.3 billion, or more than double this year's level...
...benefits VISTA gave to communities it covered, the volunteers it employed and the nation it served are not the kind that show up dramatically on graphs; consequently, VISTA is probably doomed. But even if VISTA's loss may not diminish the gross national product, we will be a poorer nation without it. VISTA was among a group of programs that, for all their problems, announced to the world that the American government saw what was wrong with this country and tried to change it. And perhaps more importantly, VISTA was conceived in the belief that there were ordinary people...
...make amends for this gross insult I shall indeed participate in Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD). --with a barrage of satire that will make your movement an even greater laughingstock than it is already," the letter continued...