Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard governance bodies--The President and Fellows and Board of Overseers--are reduced to the position of a mere rubber stamp of the administration, the only source of their information. Yet each member of these two governing bodies is liable for dereliction of fiduciary duty and gross negligence. Legal precedence abound...
...fact, the losses already suffered by Harvard's endowment through gross mismanagement and incompetence are so monumental that they stagger the imagination. Try to imagine what a small fraction of assets so lost could have done for annual University budgets in terms of scholarships, salaries, new professorships, research projects...
...election, she burst into tears. She was happy for him, but after all, any teenager might be apprehensive about moving into the White House. You can't wander off to the mall. And you never know when somebody's going to snap a picture, no matter how gross you feel. Chelsea felt that only one person could truly understand the pressures she is facing. So she talked it over with AMY CARTER, now 25, who was just nine when her father was elected. Clinton aides say one of Chelsea's greatest concerns is that Secret Service agents will shadow...
...refusal to deal with B violates no rights of B's. On the contrary, forcing A to deal with B is a gross violation of A's rights...
...billion-a-year federal spending program -- 2 1/2 times the size of Clinton's campaign plan to rebuild the infrastructure. "The economic arguments still apply today," says James Tobin, a Yale Nobel laureate and a prominent member of the group. "Fifty billion dollars is 1% of gross domestic product," Tobin adds, noting that it would not be an excessive stimulus. "One could argue that $50 billion is not enough." But Robert Solow, an M.I.T. Nobel laureate who also backed the plan, provides a note of caution. Says he: "The stimulus idea still applies now, but who can tell what conditions...