Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pointing to its predicted 2.5 percent growth in Gross National Product (GNP) over the next five years, he said the region is "standing on the brink of economic growth...
...BUCK NEVER STOPS Great economic news, Bill! The latest Moni-market indicators suggest a solid rise in g.d.p. (or gross domestic products). At a Manhattan gourmet shop, snackers can nibble a $20 Monica cookie. In New York a cable ad promotes a phone line to the Oval Orifice. In Germany a decorating company boasts that its "wall-to-wall carpets are knee-friendly and bugging-proof...
...degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops...
...proposed increases, which raise gross federal financial aid by 4.4 percent, follow a year in which total federal funding rose more than 10 percent...
...million: Box-office gross of the last 11 Jack Nicholson movies, including As Good As It Gets, Mars Attacks!, Blood & Wine, The Evening Star, The Crossing Guard, Wolf, Hoffa, A Few Good Men, Man Trouble, The Two Jakes and Batman...