Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plan worked also restrict and to student where families have a gross adjusted change of less then $60,000. Director of Financial Ands James S. Miller said about 200 students might be affected...
Among the great European collections of the traditional graphic arts, the Albertina's has always had a special place. Its holdings are vast: more than 1.5 million items, ranging from playing cards to Michelangelo drawings. Yet what counts is not their gross but, so to speak, their net: the core of old master drawings and prints assembled, over a lifetime of passionate connoisseurship, by Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen (1738-1822). At a time when any crocodile can become a "major" collector by scrawling a digit and six zeroes on a check for a B+ Van Gogh, it is worth...
...some Western analysts had suspected, the new General Secretary is a disciple of policies conceived by Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov. Explained Jeremy Azrael, senior analyst of Soviet affairs at the Rand Corp.: "To say that there have been new ideas on the domestic front would be a gross overstatement." Gorbachev, said Azrael, "is the heir of Andropov...
Some Hollywood people worry that the day may come when there will be one gross-out too many and teenagers will turn to something else, perhaps even dramas or--is it possible?--books. But so long as adolescents are adolescents, probably not. Sometimes, when you are 14 or 15, say, bad is better than good, dirt is more appealing than clean, and a night at the newest gross-out is more fun than sitting at home watching television with...
...drive to put computers in the classroom is apparently part of a plan by Soviet Party Boss Mikhail Gorbachev to revitalize the sluggish Soviet economy. Last year's growth in national income, the closest Soviet equivalent to gross national product, was a disappointing 2.6%, down from 3.1% in 1983 and only about half the size of the gains achieved in the 1960s. Many industries, including transportation and communications, are a decade or more behind the West in their use of computers, and that has retarded productivity increases. Moscow now seems to recognize that unless the Soviet Union produces...