Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income-which under tribal custom he must share not only with his wife and six children but with hordes of other rela- tives-caused a whole colony of aboriginal artists to spring up at Hermannsburg. Today Hermannsburg has 18 painters (including three of Namatjira's. sons), who collectively gross nearly $8,000 a year. Some of Namatjira's followers, many critics think, are doing better work than the master, whom they regard as too slick. One of the best is Edwin Pareroultja, also a tribesman, who turns out imaginative landscapes that are refreshingly unsophisticated and less imitative...
Foods. Borden's gross hit a high of $792 million, and its net went up an appetizing 15%, to $20.3 million...
...Neal Gross, lecturer at the Graduate School of Education and Director of the Studies, made the group's first report at the Annual School Board Conference of the New England School Development Council at the Hotel Commander...
...basis of interviews with approximately one half of the school superintendents in Massachusetts, Gross reported, "Many of hem are dissatisfied and frustrated; many of them are disgusted with the frequent efforts to make a community football out of so crucial a matter as public education...
Forty-nine percent of the 105 superintendents interviewed reported receiving objections in a recent 12-month period about views expressed by teachers, Gross stated. At the same time, he added, 13 percent received demands that teachers express certain points of view in the classroom...