Michael Gross, broker and futures analyst with OptionSellers.com, said a lot of the gold bulls were hoping for a third quantitative easing.

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Keaton wasn't supposed to garner so much attention on the show, which also starred Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross as Keaton's liberal, ex-hippie, baby boomer parents.

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Michael Gross, author of "Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, " told CNN that such concerns were irrelevant to fashion's main job of shaping aspirations to sell clothes.

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