Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state of collapse. But it puts restraints on our standard of living, and it makes it much more difficult for us to take care of a variety of other needs." Gafny and other economic experts are just as worried about the fact that Israel's gross national product is now almost static. Last year, it rose by a mere 0.9%, the lowest increase in six years. To make matters worse, unemployment, never a worrisome phenomenon before, grew by 67% in 1980 alone, and now stands...
...spending surges, the tax burden grows steadily heavier. Next year federal revenues will consume 22% of the gross national product, up from 18% in 1976. Carter's budget includes no personal tax relief in 1981 and only a token $9 billion cut in 1982. Even that reduction will not offset increases in Social Security levies that will boost individual taxes by some $16 billion during the same time period. But despite the higher taxes, the Carter Administration still opposed significant tax reduction. Said Carter: "I continue to believe that large inflationary individual income tax cuts are neither appropriate...
...Taking actions which will clearly separate us from those sectors inside and outside the armed forces responsible for gross excesses against the population. The individuals involved have been identified by the FDR/DRU and by our own intelligence services...
...Taber, who is in charge of TIME'S Economy & Business section, reported an August 1979 cover story on the then new theory of supply-side economics and wrote a cover story last year entitled: "Is Capitalism Working?" While Taber welcomes the new public awareness that has made "gross national product" and "prime interest rate" the stuff of dinner table conversations, he cautions that the most important lesson amateur economists can learn is patience. "There will be months of austerity before Americans see any improvement in their own economic world," Taber says. "George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's sometime adviser...
...does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise." Devotees of the mixed metaphor will prize: "Riding on this illusion you hurled yourself against the windmills of your chosen dragon." Although Fallaci's junta villains are as gross as editorial cartoons, it is difficult to separate dragon, windmills and Quixote. For throughout this catalogue of misery, Fallaci never makes the right choice. When the account needs historical analysis she offers tantrums; when suffering cries out for a tragic spirit she substitutes bathos...