Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been driven by the government from their long-held tribal lands to return. "We recognize that we've committed arbitrary acts against Nicaraguans of Miskito origin," said Minister of the Interior Tdmas Borge Martinez in a rare apology. Sandinista officials have for months privately confessed their gross mishandling of the Miskito issue. Borge also met with editors of the daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would not be censored, as it has been in the past. The government even gave the economically shaky newspaper funds to buy scarce and expensive newsprint, the shortage...
From the council's perspective, the event is not intended as a money-making activity, Vendler said. Although the proposed concert could gross more than $400,000 in ticket sales, he added, less than $6000 would remain after Adler and the band collected their shares of the receipts...
Unlike government puppets like Chief Buthelizi and Percy Qoboza, the true leaders see that "progressive change" is impossible within the confines of an inherently racist system which depends upon gross exploitation and oppression for its very existence. Therefore they advocate total divestiture--probably the single action most capable of bringing the deplorable South African regime to its knees. Stephen M. Taylor...
With both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State opposed, Nitze stood little chance of getting the President to reconsider. In August, he made one last attempt, calling on Clark. But the National Security Adviser turned him down flat. The President, said Clark, still believed in the "gross disparity in capability" between ballistic and cruise missiles. An agreement that left the Soviets with a monopoly in ballistic missiles would be "a one-sided deal and as such unacceptable...
...outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse, and De Palma directs his actors to play at the pitch of gross grandiosity but at the pace of a chamber drama...