Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the individuals, Drexel Burnham as a corporation was subpoenaed by the SEC and by a federal grand jury. For the past two years Drexel Burnham has been Wall Street's most profitable investment firm; its 1985 gross earnings were an estimated $1.1 billion. In a bid to head off a run on accounts held with the company, Drexel Burnham declared it was "providing information" to investigators and emphasized that it "will not condone or tolerate any activities which violate the integrity of the markets...
...married to employed black men earning above poverty incomes." Some partly blame a welfare system based on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which often makes it financially disadvantageous for a man to stay at home. In California, for example, a person in a minimum-wage job would gross about $580 a month. Factoring in Social Security deductions, food stamps and other benefits that would go to a typical worker with a spouse and child, the family would get a monthly income of about $737, that is, $246 per family member. If there were no wage earner, however, the mother...
Ginsberg, it seems, has reached the logical--and just plain gross--culmination of that legacy with the publication of his latest collection of poems, White Shroud: Poems 1980-1985. The book has attracted attention as Ginsberg's "dirtiest" collection, and it is a well-deserved reputation...
...says Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...
...western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing, drug-dealing outsiders became the symbols of the dropout counterculture of the '60s. Made for less than $500,000, the picture went on to gross more than $40 million. (Hopper and Fonda are now planning Easy Rider II, set in postapocalypse America...