Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Touchstone people--media reps would probably be the technical term for the dedicated individuals obliged to look after our needs--were exquisitely attentive, behaving as though they expected our opinions to have the slightest effect on the final box office gross their pictures would pull in. Deluded, no doubt, but so much the better...
...stock crash, the plunging dollar and the scary new trade figures, most of the economists insist that America will muddle along next year with no recession, no significant rise in unemployment or inflation and only a modest increase in interest rates. Their median forecast is for growth in the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, to slow only slightly, from 3.4% this year to 2.7% in 1988. Asserts Sam Nakagama of the Manhattan-based consulting firm Nakagama & Wallace: "Views are changing radically right now. It appears we are going to have a vigorous economy next year." Agrees Edward Yardeni...
...gross," said a friend of mine who has at times been found protesting at University-sponsored dinners and living in cardboard boxes in the Yard. "The CIA KILLS people...
Ever wonder how much Americans spend on munching hot dogs at football games or buying ski equipment for a winter jaunt? With the aid of the WEFA econometrics firm, a new Times Mirror magazine called Sports inc.: the Sports Business Weekly has compiled a gross national sports product (GNSP). The New York City- based magazine says Americans last year sank $47.25 billion, or more than 1% of total GNP, into sports. That puts sports just below the $49.5 billion motor vehicles industry but well ahead of the $38.9 billion U.S. petroleum and coal business. The GNSP includes estimates of spending...
Revenues too. Those were nourished by the Reagan-era frenzy of corporate mergers that generated tens of millions in fees. A survey by the monthly American Lawyer showed 20 firms this year with gross revenues of $100 million- plus. Two years ago, just five were in that elite. The leader, 840-lawyer Skadden, Arps, had gross revenues of around $228 million. With offices in eight cities, its weekly partnership lunches require an audio hookup to link conference rooms...