Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HJLSA letter, after reciting recent (and we might add tragic) attacks against Israeli citizens, concluded with a statement to the effect that the teach-in appeared to be designed "to show support for these terrorist acts." To call this a crude attempt at innuendo would be a gross under-statement. Does this mean that anyone who wished to listen to an "unpopular" point of view on the Palestinian issue supports terrorism...
...country whose business is business, this may seem a case of gross neglect by those who, whether they like it or not, are considered to be the voices of society. As the United States undergoes the transformation from a manufacturing society to a service and information one, one naturally looks for signs of this momentous shift in the pages of recent fiction, But, as a trip to the local bookstore will demonstrate, such is not the case...
Alvarez's blatant cronyism had become a source of rancor in the Honduran armed forces; so had increasing rumors of corruption within his clique. The Defense Minister began avoiding meetings of the armed forces superior council. When he did attend one last month, says a participant, Alvarez was "gross and vulgar." Younger officers suspected that he was tapping their telephones and following their personal movements. Some junior military men may have been bothered by Alvarez's embrace of the U.S. training center in Honduras for Salvadoran troops: many Honduran officers have lingering memories of their country...
This was questionable. Total American trade with the U.S.S.R. amounts to much less than 1% of the Soviet gross national product. Nor had the U.S. displayed the willingness and ability to use very effectively what economic leverage it had. In April 1981, the Administration misplayed the strongest card it held when President Reagan lifted the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. President Carter had embargoed the sale of U.S. agricultural products to the U.S.S.R. in January 1980 in reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the campaign, Reagan had promised to lift it. Secretary of Agriculture John Block reminded...
...think the basic part of the deficit is due to government itself and the excessive share of the people's earnings, the gross national product, the government is taking. And so we're going to continue. We made a proposal for the down payment in the next three years, so it's pretty evenly divided between some revenues, not by raising rates but by eliminating some tax practices that we think aren't fairly distributed...