Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price increases was slowing, the number of medical claims filed with insurance companies was growing ominously, pushing up overall expenditures faster than expected. The total medical bill for U.S. health care rose last year about 10%, from $458 billion to more than $500 billion, or 11% of the gross national product. Those costs are expected to climb an additional 15% this year...
Aside from Ted Kennedy, most congressional Democrats consider Reagan's fiscal pieties gross hypocrisy. "His has been the biggest spending Administration in history," fumes House Budget Chairman William Gray of Pennsylvania. "And every year he returns to the tired old rhetoric that a line-item veto is the magic wand that would bring down Government spending...
...Regency, the city's treasured revival house. There was a rally and a petition with 30,000 signers. To Drabinsky, the protesters were "publicity seekers" and their pleas "absurd." He plans to showcase revivals at a smaller midtown theater. "We made the Regency a lot newer, and it will gross almost four times as much in its first year." Not a man to be convinced that the Regency was the stuff that dreams are played in. The visionary showman sounds here like an old-time movie villain -- a Darth Grabinsky -- or an urban-renewal slumlord wondering why the family inside...
...supporting cast, like their leaders, are mainly washed up has-beens with too much pride to sink to do Hollywood Squares but not enough talent to make it onto The Love Boat. There's Mary Gross, for example, Donna Dixon and Charles Grodin. Grodin, actually, pulls off what seems like a stellar performance in comparison, but it's lost amidst the stale jokes and valium-inspired acting perpetrated by his cohorts and the rest of the cast, unknown actors who are destined to remain...
...prosperous uncle. Haig had his heart set on West Point, but had to apply twice and use his uncle's political connections to get in. Haig was not a model cadet. He amassed some 158 hours of punishment in his first two years for, among other things, "gross public displays of affection" (kissing). Haig roguishly explains, "I had a lot of fun." He graduated 214th in his class of 310 in 1947. His yearbook tweaks him for "strong convictions and even stronger ambitions...