Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While her husband tangled with the law over the gross misdemeanor, Gretchen, who was a corrections officer at a federal-prison medical center in nearby Rochester, befriended Woodard, a felon who had been convicted in 1990 of drug and firearms charges. In 1995 he won a "supervised release" from a halfway house and moved to Jonesboro with Gretchen and her sons. This time around, she chose to be a homemaker, and they set up house on a county road half a mile outside Jonesboro. The Woodards' daughter Jessie was born in Arkansas...
When he came to office in 1933, laissez-faire had undermined the temples of capitalism, thrown a quarter of the labor force out of work, cut the gross national product almost in half and provoked mutterings of revolution. No one knew why things had gone wrong or how to set them right. Only communists were happy, seeing in the Great Depression decisive proof of Karl Marx's prophecy that capitalism would be destroyed by its own contradictions...
...This is gross science fiction sensationalism, but Newman has framed the debate as one of ideological extremes and in doing so has done a great disservice to a fair discussion and an important scientific inquiry. For one thing, Newman and other critics do not weigh heavily enough the possible benefits that could result from inter-species genetic manipulation...
...anywhere Gloria Steinem goes--right up to her recent op-ed piece in the New York Times in which she argued that even if all the allegations about the President turn out to be true, he is guilty not of sexual harassment but of simply making a few gross passes and each time dutifully taking no for an answer...
...parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians to attend a "parent responsibility training program." Parents must complete the program and pay for its cost or be sanctioned for contempt. According to Glynn, Arkansas can also bring a criminal prosecution against a parent "whose gross neglect of parental duty" leads to the criminal acts of a child. Under that statute, however, parents face only a maximum $250 fine with no jail time...