Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four weeks ago, in a gross flouting of College rules and state laws, a brawl erupted at the D.U. final club between a football recruit and club members. High school senior John Burnham, who sustained a blow-out fracture on his left eye in the fight, never should have been at the club. Moreover, the subsequent hush-up of the incident again suggests that College officials prefer minimizing publicity to exacting appropriate punishments from blameworthy students...
...AMAZING THAT YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT Castro didn't mention the gross human-rights violations that have taken place during the 36 years of his dictatorship: the torture and execution of thousands of dissidents, as many as 5,000 political prisoners still in Cuban jails, and the organization, training and support of terrorists throughout Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The U.S. embargo has solid moral grounds...
...contract than voices of protest mounted, both in the Clinton Administration and in the Du Pont corporation itself. While Conoco's deal did not represent a violation of American law (the oil from the fields was not to be brought into the United States) it did constitute a gross violation of the spirit' of American policy Vis-a-vis the Islamic regime in Iran...
...Paul R. Gross of the University of Virginia andNorman Levitt of Rutgers University write in theirbook Higher Superstition: "there is noknowledge...there are merely stories,'narratives,' devised to satisfy the human need tomake some sense of the world...
Lewin read the file and documented gross violations of user privacy--he was able to identify students and faculty who downloaded pornographic images...