Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classmates, Karin J. Stromswold, opposes the lab because "Science is in no way being forwarded by this," (11/3/83) Ms. Stromswold's quote, however, reveals a gross misconception of the lab's purpose. The lab does not intend to advance science. Its goal is to advance our knowledge as medical students and competency as future a physicians. Indeed, sacrificing the animal becomes morally palatable for me because I leave enlightened and that much more prepared to care for people. Daniel I. Simon Harvard Medical School
...considerably in the last half of 1982 and early 1983. The change in policy helped push down the prime rate that banks charge for corporate loans, from 16.5% to 10.5%, and triggered an economic upturn last spring that was much brisker than expected. From April through September, the gross national product, adjusted for inflation, expanded at an 8.6% annual pace. The economy was so exuberant, in fact, that the Reserve Board decided to tighten slightly in late spring, and the prime rate later rose a notch, to 11%. Government figures released last week showed that G.N.P. growth slowed...
Growth. TIME's economists expect that expansion next year will be less rapid than this year, when the economy grew at an annual rate of about 6.5%, but they say growth will still be brisk. The board forecasts that the gross national product will increase by 4.5% in 1984. The driving force behind the recovery is likely to be the consumer, who has rediscovered old spending habits (see following story). One area of strength could be new-car sales. Several board members expect an increase next year from the current annual rate of more than 9 million vehicles...
...next president of NBC News has never been a reporter. A Brooklyn-born graduate of Columbia University, Gross man has spent most of his career in advertising. From 1962 to 1966 he was vice president for advertising at NBC, after which he formed his own New York City ad agency. He calls his nonjournalistic background "a serious lack," and candidly admits, "I have a lot to learn...
Advised by U.S. Media Consultant Jo seph Napolitan, Lusinchi blamed outgoing President Luis Herrera Campins, 58, for all of Venezuela's many economic woes. Among them: a 4.5% drop during Herrera Campins' tenure in the country's gross domestic product ($69.3 billion in 1982) and a current unemployment rate of 20%. The key problem, however, is a foreign debt of about $34 billion, the result of years of uncontrolled government spending that eventually coincided with sharply reduced revenues from oil, Venezuela's principal foreign-exchange earner...