Word: gross
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Schlesinger argues that big as the proposed $85.8 billion budget for 1975 sounds, it is really rather modest. Allowing for inflation, it is about $8.7 billion less than was spent in 1964, before the big Viet Nam buildup began. The proposed 1975 outlays would consume 5.9% of the U.S. gross national product ?the same portion as last year but far less than the 8.3% of the G.N.P...
DEPLETION ALLOWANCES. These permit an oil or gas producer to deduct from his taxable income up to 22% of the gross revenues derived from his well...
...Only last week, for example, the Freshman Council threw out an election for the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life because two candidates had unknowingly broken the rules of the campaign by advertising themselves too actively. "Freshmen," said one of the offending candidates in a Crimson ad, "Vote: Neil Gross. Good O1' Gross is Great." With a little luck, the author of this advertisement may someday become a young dynamo, or maybe an old dynamo, as the case may be. It may be the year after Watergate, but the longest journey begins with a single step...
...suspicion unites extremists and conservatives, consumerists, Congressmen and local government officials. Contends Harvard's Nobel prizewinning Economist Wassily Leontief: "The oil shortage is not simply the result of the Arab embargo, but a gross mismanagement on the part of our oil industry, obviously abetted by our Government." Consumerist Ralph Nader conceded a month ago that there was a shortage, but labeled it "artificial." Now he says he does not think there is any shortage at all. "To this very hour," he asserts, "the industry refuses to disclose its reserves to the Government. If there was a real energy shortage...
What struck one most about the reviews was not that they were aesthetically displeasing, or grossly simplistic, or--given the paper's tendency to confuse freedom with license--simply gross. What the reviews demonstrated was a far more damning ignorance of the mechanical and artistic processes by which shows are produced at this college. I shuddered to think of the comping sophomore--unable to tell a master electrician from a technical director, unaware of what happens when a show is cast--viscerally reviewing a play he or she had clearly never read or even seen before. It may not make...