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Recent Examples of grosses
Noun
Overall, industry grosses stayed fairly steady from the prior week, with total gross up just 1 percent and attendance fairly flat.—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 20 Jan. 2026
With generous grounds and a residence built for gathering, this Southern Highlands estate invites the full cast of grandparents, cousins, friends, and whoever else earns a place at the weekend table.
Californians deserve an insurance commissioner dedicated to making insurance affordable and available for all Californians, not to increasing profits for this $1 trillion industry.
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Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
15 May 2026
Soaring profits meant higher compensation for bankers, of course.
The Korea Times noted that under the Capital Market Act, any person who nets KRW5 billion or more by making false representations about a financial product faces a prison term of at minimum five years, with a life sentence possible at the upper end.
What few efforts do exist to address alcohol’s harms have been overshadowed by the opioid crisis, a parallel drug epidemic that attracts more funding, spurs more policy change, and garners more media attention despite being vastly less deadly.
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Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 May 2026
Unless one candidate garners more than 50% of votes in the June 2 primary to outright win the seat, the top two vote-getters will move on to the November general election ballot.