Word: gross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Limericks: Too Gross (Norton, $7.95 hardcover). Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple. But the two, who first met at a writers' conference, are close friends. They are also competitors and over the past several years have tried, with limited success, to top each other at composing limericks. The result of their 1978 Shootout is a book in which each offers 144 of the five-liners. One of Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know...
...PENN 68, HARVARD 61 PENN G FT T Sharon Gross 2 0-2 4 Kim Dare 5 0-0 10 Carol Kona 6 0-0 12 Mary Monahan 8 1-3 17 Mary Dilona 2 1-2 5 Diane DiBoneventure 3 1-3 7 Nellie Duncan 5 3-4 13 Totals...
...realize how ununited the U.S. is unless you drive across it," says Trucker Tom Strampel. The worst regulations, everyone agrees, are those governing the length and weight of tractor trailers. Smack dab in the middle of the U.S. are seven states that allow trucks a gross weight of only 73,280 Ibs. The states on either side permit 80,000 Ibs. Truckers will do anything to avoid the weigh stations ("chicken coops") in those seven states. "You just can't make it from California to the East Coast legal," sighs Jerry Reeve, 37. "The Federal Government and state bureaucrats...
...special relationship with the U.S. has enabled Mexico to achieve one of the fastest growing economies in the Third World; its gross national product after several very bad years, is once again increasing by about 6% a year. But the majority of Mexicans live in bleak poverty; per capita income was $1,070 a year in 1974, one-sixth of what it was in the U.S. Moreover, Mexico has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, up to half of its work force by some estimates...
...Reduced R. and D. In 1964, research and development spending accounted for 3% of the gross national product; last year the share was down to 2.2%. Some reasons: the Government has cut its support of R. and D. programs sharply with the end of the Viet Nam War and the de-emphasis of the space program; private universities have been in a financial squeeze; industry in an inflationary era has judged the payoff from R. and D. spending to be too long term and uncertain. The toll on productivity is hard to calculate, since it would have to be measured...