Word: grosse
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...deficit in U.S. history. Stockman has seen the deficit grow from $58 billion in 1981 to considerably more than $200 billion this year. Although some economists say that the importance of the deficit figure is overrated, most express a real concern that it now equals approximately 5.5% of the gross national product, up from 2% in 1981. The debt racked up by the budgets Stockman has overseen equals that accumulated under all previous Administrations. Even though the amount going to domestic programs will be sharply reduced in real terms, Government spending has gone up 25% since Reagan took office...
DIED. Simon Kuznets, 84, Ukrainian-born economist, statistician and professor emeritus at Harvard, who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for his development in the 1930s of the first sophisticated system for measuring the gross national product, the now indispensable means for gauging comparative economic activity and income distribution by computing the total value of each nation's goods and services; in Cambridge, Mass...
...women's work, is universally undervalued. Indeed, according to a recent survey by Economist Ruth Leger Sivard, director of World Priorities, a Washington-based think tank, the cash value of the unpaid labor of women represents $4 trillion a year, equivalent to a third of the world's gross economic product. Said Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Selma James, a leader of the strike call: "Women are very determined that our work no longer be invisible...
...Committee on General Education, which is headed by Kirby himself, with Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Summers sitting in ex officio, finished its report in February, hoping to present its findings to the Faculty for a vote, as the other committees continued their work...
Halperin, in a 2003 e-mail to Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and then-Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, noted that the State Department’s warnings applied to countries concentrated in specific regions, namely Africa, the Middle East, and several Slavic nations, thus precluding students who study these areas from pursuing their interests abroad...