Word: gross
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...Stone is in demand all over the U.S., lecturing on the nature of Wal-Mart and how to deal with it. Stone estimates that Wal-Mart's stores -- a combination of general merchandise, groceries and wholesale clubs -- could, if growth in the 1990s equals that of the 1980s, gross $200 billion annually by the end of the decade. "It could be the biggest corporation in the United States," says Stone, and that includes Exxon and General Motors...
...Allen counter's recent letter to The Crimson shows gross professional miconduct on Dr. Counter's part and makes it clear that he is not suitable for the job of director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relationsd...
...administrative leader of the Harvard Foundation, S. Allen Counter can have a tremendous effect on the level of sensitivity on campus. Unless Counter retracts what seems to be gross insensitivity on racial and ethnic issues--and does it quickly--he should not be in charge of intercultural and race relations at Harvard...
Higher education in the U.S. is big business -- a $100 billion business, to be precise, representing 2.7% of gross national product. No other nation can boast of so many and such different institutions: 156 universities, 1,953 four-year colleges, 1,378 two-year colleges and technical schools. More than half these are defined as private schools (although nearly all get some form of state or federal funding). Collectively, they employ 793,000 faculty members -- not to mention a supernumerary army of deans and other administrative personnel -- and accommodate 14 million students. One sign of the astonishing increase in part...
...Citizen Kane a box-office blockbuster? Did Jean Renoir get gross profit points on La Grande Illusion? And Fellini, did he go way over budget...