Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State documents reveal that a state inspector on unrelated business was examining the Carpenter Center in October 1985 when he found the widely-spaced stairway rails "in gross violation of our present code." According to current code, stair railings may not be separated by more than six inches...
...result is a misunderstanding, a gross misunderstanding. Movies are just one example. But such a misunderstanding does not stop in the theater. It moves out to the streets of every major American city and to the diplomatic meetings between American ambassadors and their Latin American counterparts. America views Latin America as if it were one action-packed crime drama with lots of guns and drugs...
...done. Nor is it likely, on the evidence of the past year, that he knows. Since the U.S. drive to oust Noriega began last summer, Washington has once again demonstrated how the Law of Unintended Consequences can lead to a foreign-policy disaster. Through bureaucratic backbiting, uninformed bluster and gross miscalculation, the Administration did not merely fail to depose Noriega. It also managed to cripple Panama's economy, weaken the local democratic opposition, undermine pro-American attitudes, damage U.S. prestige in Latin America and exacerbate concerns about the stability of the Panama Canal. Moreover, the fiasco could easily become...
...restlessness that Grosz, 57, will face as he tries to cope with economic stagnation. During his first week as party General Secretary, Grosz vigorously repeated his support for the market-directed policies he insists are necessary to revive the Hungarian economy, which is weighted down by an $18 billion gross foreign debt and double-digit inflation. But Grosz warned Hungarians not to expect too much too soon. "Many think reform will change everything," he told a Budapest daily. "It is only work that will change our situation...
...NATO defense ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels to ponder those issues and look at what Western Europe might do to stop the grumbling in the U.S. One answer: greater spending by the West Europeans. With a combined gross domestic product of $4.3 trillion, they are as strong economically as the U.S., and their total population of 374 million is one-third larger than that of the U.S. The likelihood that defense outlays will increase is dim, however, since European economic growth rates are slowing. Another inhibiting factor, a senior U.S. official notes, is that "arms talks are making...