Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt's orders, then McCloy was no more than an administrator and a bureaucrat. Even this in no way excuses him; those who protested at Nuremberg that they program...
...million, and Chicago's $16 million. "There isn't a one-to-one correlation between money and having a great orchestra," says Richard Bibler, president of the promising Milwaukee Symphony, which gets by on a budget of about $5 million a year, "but there is a gross correlation." Says Patricia Corbett, who, like her husband J. Ralph Corbett, is a prominent Cincinnati philanthropist: "An orchestra can be anything you want it to be if you are willing to pay the budget...
...replacing its IBM computers with Hitachi units made in Japan? It is a gross injustice when the tax collectors in our Government spend our dollars for foreign equipment...
...feel more secure in concrete ways too. Long before a freeze became fashionable in the U.S., the Soviets were pushing their version of the concept. No wonder. Given their belief that more is better and most is best, since the late '60s they have tended to lead in gross numbers and would naturally like to see their quantitative advantage frozen. The SALT I Interim Agreement on Offensive Weapons, a five-year companion to the ABM Treaty of 1972, held the U.S. to 1,710 launchers for intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (ICBMs and SLBMs). That was about...
...Disney Productions, but the negotiations were often tortuous. Recalls Disney Vice President Frank Stanek: "Both sides had to penetrate formidable cultural barriers." A deal was finally struck in 1979, under which Disney agreed to provide its technology, advice and guidance during construction in return for a share of the gross ticket take. Before it was over, as many as 200 Disney employees from the U.S. (expenses paid by Oriental) worked the site...