Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third provision of the bill would require corporations which are relocating to deposit an amount equal to 15 per cent of their employees' gross earnings in a community fund, Zweig said...
...columns of a newspaper--including a photograph--are devoted to an utterly unnewsworthy piece, it is an indication that the news is being created instead of reported. I find it particularly alarming that the reporters responsible are recently elected members of your senior staff. They are already guilty of gross misuse of their newly acquired power. It looks like a grim year lies ahead for Harvard journalism. Andrew M. Browne...
Republicans Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum would favor an amendment that would peg the growth in Government spending to growth in the gross national product. Says Weidenbaum: "This gets to the heart of the matter, which is to slow down the growth of the Government." One danger is that the G.N.P. is the product of many estimates and is often revised; if spending were linked to the G.N.P., politicians would be tempted to twist and bend that number...
...this categorization. Witness the profound alienation of Afro-American peoples, the malicious attempt to reduce us to beings only concerned with the satisfaction of animal desires, the undisguised genocidal practices to which Afro-Americans are subjected daily (over 50 per cent of the U.S. prison population is black), the gross unemployment of our youth (over 60 per cent unemployed) while billions go toward arms procurement on the ground that the U.S. commitment to European allies is more important than the livelihood of our people. There is a deliberate attempt to keep Afro-Americans in ignorance and thereby obfuscate their thinking...
...Faculty Council may take a step toward remedying its non-committal image next week if it approves the reforms in tutorial legislation recommended by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education. These proposed reforms seek to combat the gross discrepancies between stated University policy and actual practice by requiring professors to teach more tutorials...