Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Complicated calculations indicate that we have seen almost 1.2 per cent of undergraduate ID's. Plenty for some gross generalizations. We have determined that the new ID's fall into three categories...
...Palestinians, many of whom are sophisticated and well educated, have dragged out a painful existence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with many once prosperous families reduced to poverty; the two areas have a population about a third of Israel's, but their gross domestic product is only 5% as high. More humiliating still, Palestinians have been heavily dependent for such jobs and incomes as they have had on the very Israeli occupiers they have incessantly fought with stones, bricks, bombs and gunfire. Their reverence for education has been wasted in a place that offered them...
...prepared with guests, had no questions that anyone could possibly want to know the answer to. (To Jason Priestly: "You are such a big star . . . has it changed you much, or are you pretty much the same guy you've been all your life?") His comedy bits were mostly gross-out juvenilia (a gerbil clogs up Tom Scott's saxophone...
Chamorro can ill afford to let aid funds dry up. Gross domestic product is growing at an annual rate of less than 1%. Six of every 10 people are unemployed or so underemployed they have trouble buying basic necessities, and 70% of the population lives in poverty. Progress is stymied by battles over farmland, and small landowners, even recompas, complain that they cannot gain access to credit because the Sandinistas control bank disbursements...
Washington used to be Anita Hill's town too--at least until a combination of gross incompetence, naivete and vindictiveness caused her to flee and plot revenge against a mentor who had callously discarded...