Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a total of 47 different therapists representing a range of schools from Gestalt and group to classical psychoanalysis. "Not one of these experiences," Langs writes, "seems to have been free of self-contradictory, unrealistic, out-of-control behaviors and interventions on the part of the therapist. Using rather gross measures, one might say that in general the therapists were responsible for three times as many incidents of overtly inappropriate behavior as their patients...
...work. The clearest sign of distress is the burgeoning trade deficit, which measures the gap between America's exports and its imports. TIME's board estimated that the shortfall, which is expected to reach a record $150 billion this year, cut in half the growth in the U.S. gross national product during the first six months of 1985. Without that trade deficit, the U.S. would perhaps have had growth at an annual rate of more than 2%, rather than an anemic...
With the entire defensive secondary graduated, lettermen Jim Frontero and Lyndon Gross will have to step into leading roles...
...Federal Reserve's changing of the guard comes at a crucial time for the U.S. economy, which has been almost stalled. The gross national product, after expanding at a 6.8% pace in 1984, grew at an annual rate of only 1.2% in the first half of this year. Housing starts are falling, and industrial production is virtually stagnant. One sign that growth may be reviving, however, is a recent dip in unemployment. After being stuck at 7.3% for six months, the jobless rate dropped to 7% in August. The fall in black teenage unemployment, from about...
...Titanic was her name, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner afloat. She weighed 46,328 gross tons and was 882.5 ft., roughly 3 1/2 city blocks long. Her engines, developing 55,000 h.p., could drive the Titanic at a speed of up to 25 knots. And the luxury suites (price: $4,350 for an Atlantic crossing) contained elegant furnishings, sumptuous draperies and even private promenade decks...