Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael W. Hirschorn attempts to present a credible analysis of the motives of those Harvard students who support President Reagan. Mr. Hirschorn, however, makes some gross misinterpretations of the Reagan supporters whom he considers too unwise to even rationalize their position with factual argument. He seems to think that Reagan supporters are unconcerned with the nuclear threat, the welfare of the poor, and other issues. In reach: many Reagan supporters are too exasperated by the violent. Democratic hostility which precludes explanation. The subtlety of explaining one's political position cannot be undertaken in a short exchange in which...
Next year's changes will benefit some taxpayers more than others. Single taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes of $20,000 will pay $47 less in taxes. Married couples with two dependents filing a joint return and showing $40,000 in adjusted gross income will get a $129 break. If they earn $50,000, they will pay $224 less...
...population living below the poverty line, currently set at an income of $10,178 for a family of four, rose from 12.6% in 1970 to 13% by 1980. Murray contends that this lack of progress cannot be blamed on a sluggish economy. The annual growth of the gross national product averaged 3.2% in the 1970s, a faster pace than in the Eisenhower years, when the prevalence of poverty declined. Murray, however, does not fully address the argument that growth was sporadic during the 1970s and that wage increases were badly eroded by inflation...
...cave with his daughters, and there they live like savages. It is a fate worthy of degenerates, concludes the author. "Except for defending criminals, there was nothing Lot knew how to do." In Utzel & His Daughter the editorial is even more obvious: a girl named Poverty is too gross and slothful to attract a bridegroom. She cannot even get into her shoes until she stops living on handouts, takes a job as a maid and loses weight. In good time, she becomes the bride of a wealthy youth...
Although they are now considered essential measures of economic performance, such vital yardsticks as the gross national product and the consumer price index have come into widespread use only in recent decades. During the 1940s economists made rapid strides in their ability to sift through the billions of transactions that make up economic behavior and distill them into key statistics that indicate the state of the economy. Few experts have been more crucial in turning the numerical potpourri into some kind of order than Sir Richard Stone, 71, who last week won the 1984 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic...