Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gross example of the elitism thatHarvard is famous for," said Charles W. Dupree...
...economy was generating a high level of anxiety and uncertainty last week. The New York Stock Exchange settled into a nervous lull in the aftermath of the record plunge of the Dow Jones industrial average the week before. The Commerce Department reconfirmed that growth in the gross national product was almost completely stalled in the second quarter. Economists, executives and workers all pondered the same questions: Is the U.S. slipping into a recession? Are interest rates headed higher? Is inflation poised for a resurgence...
...dismay of many educators, the SAT has achieved a statistical majesty similar to the Dow Jones industrial average or the Gross National Product. The public tends to regard the SAT as a single number capable of summing up the health, or lack of it, of the nation's schools...
Inevitably, the antidrug crusade is producing some ludicrous results. A best-selling toy in the U.S. is Madballs, a set of eight rubber balls adorned with gross names and faces. One of the more grotesque Madballs, depicting a creature whose skull has been split wide open, was called Crack Head. Fearful that this charming toy might be accused of glorifying drug use, the toymakers last month changed the name to Bash Brain...
...impenetrable, dialogue was marred by doubts and mistrust. Some Western experts complained that the Soviets were too stingy with vital technical data about the April 26 disaster, and too reluctant to admit to design flaws in their reactors. The Soviets insisted that their designs were basically safe, and that "gross" human error had caused history's worst nuclear power catastrophe. Said one Canadian expert: "They seem to be saying, 'You can criticize our operators but not our machines...