Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy certainly has not shaken clear of all its problems. The Government reported last week that consumer prices in September rose one-half of 1%-more than double the August increase-and the growth of gross national product slowed, as expected, to an annual rate of 5.9% in the third quarter, from an unsustainable 9.4% the previous quarter. But the overall record is good. Prices this year have risen less than pay, so the real income of workers is increasing, and G.N.P. for all 1972 is still expected to show a record rise of $ 100 billion. Even his Democratic critics...
...that same year, United Air Lines posted a loss of $40 million, but paid nearly $17 million to Northwest. Payments are figured on the basis of the "windfall" profits made by companies that carry the struck carrier's passengers and on a percentage of the contributing airlines' gross revenues. During the 14 years of the pact's existence, Northwest has paid only $4,000,000 into the fund, but the firm has collected about $90 million from...
...with adjusted family incomes of under $15,000 (and we estimate that this group will include approximately 75 per cent of the undergraduate borrowers) will have interest paid on their loans while they are in school, graduate school, military service, or ACTION. Only those from families with higher incomes (gross incomes of approximately $19,000 or more) who are being supported by their families will pay the 7 per cent interest from the date of the loan. It was decided that University subsidy money, which could have been spent on this group, was better invested in alleviating hardship for those...
Students from families with an adjusted gross income under $15,000 will have their interest paid for them by Federal funds while they are enrolled in college or engaged in military service...
...Confidential Guide to Harvard, published by The Crimson. I found many of the gross misrepresentations of issues and exaggerations of the facts that have constantly been used in attempts to degrade and belittle the Department and its members. I am unsure as to whether the article is the result of someone's personal problems with the Department; but I feel that, no matter what the situation, the description of the Department is concomitant with all of the previous deprecatory remarks about that Department and as such cannot be allowed to exist unchallenged...