Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe [the relationships] cause conflicts of interest and I worry seriously about these things, particularly if there is money involved," says Jerome Gross, an emeritus professor at the Medical School who sits on the scientific advisory board of Organogenesis, Inc., a biotech firm which manufactures organ replacements for transplantation...
...director 'legally' owns the company and therefore has a major responsibility for its welfare which may be in conflict with academic responsibilities," Gross says. "For somebody to found the company and be an officer in the company and at the same time have serious academic commitments, I think, is a more serious conflict liability...
Does this add up to a conspiracy on the part of the two top bank officials to conceal Barings' mounting losses? Some of those who worked with Leeson and Norris, as well as British authorities, are unconvinced. While prepared to concede gross incompetence on the part of senior Barings management, they find it difficult to believe Bax and Norris could have known about or suspected the magnitude of Leeson's swindle and remained quiet...
...generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will to change things. Boutros-Ghali's stand on women is excellent, but mouthing the right thing when you can make it happen isn't enough...
...Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred by further liberalization can eradicate poverty. He was sure that goal could be substantially reached by 2010. By then, if current trends continue, India's annual per capita gross national product will rise from its present...