Word: grosse
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Other faculty who will serve on the committee are Anthony K. Appiah, professor of Afro-American studies and of philosophy; John E. Dowling '57, Cabot professor of the natural sciences; Benedict H. Gross '71, professor of mathematics; Stanley Hoffmann '52, Dillon professor of the civilization of France; and Helen H. Vendler, Porter University professor...
...Other "gross miscalculations" included Moscow's panicky fear of Jewish emigration; failure to realize that breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 would nearly wipe out Soviet influence in the Middle East; refusal to negotiate an early ban on antiballistic missiles and placement of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and a habit of "fixating" on U.S. military research...
...project. "Get with it!" D'Amato roars. "Get with the program! No! Get your brain in synch." He tries to restrain himself, but it's hard. He cracks the whip about fund raising--"I'm not happy! Speed it up!"--then checks on an event. "How much we gonna gross? Hell, you gotta do better! Fifty percent of that? All right. It's better than a stick in the eye." He hangs up, looking fully alive. He can't keep the Old Al down...
...less happy than we already are. Between 1957 and 1990, per capita income in America more than doubled in real terms. Yet, as the psychologist David Myers notes in The Pursuit of Happiness, the number of Americans who reported being "very happy" remained constant, at one- third. Plainly, more gross domestic product isn't the answer to our deepest needs. (And that's especially true when growth only widens the gap between richest and poorest, as has done lately...
Then luck struck. Director James Cameron cast him in what could have been a no-impact supporting role in True Lies. Thanks in part to his sly, scene-stealing comic turn as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loud, loutish best friend, the movie was boffo in 1994 ($146 million gross). Arnold instantly became one of filmdom's most wanted second bananas--a kind of low-rent Tony Randall for the age of Beavis...