Word: grossed
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Congress has slashed foreign aid to the lowest level in two decades. With only $3.3 billion, or .38% of its gross national product devoted to aid, the U.S. ranks a poor seventh in effort, though it remains far in front in total flow of aid (see chart). Because businessmen are proving more venturesome than bureaucrats, the worldwide decline in aid has been more than offset by rising private investment. The trouble is that private capital goes mainly to countries rich in oil and minerals, where help is not urgently needed...
...hoped to be allowed to finish my senior year first," said Baughan, whose father is a rear admiral in the Navy. "But the Pentagon's decision came as no surprise and I can acept it: no gross injustice was done," he added...
...driver, the factory worker may, with luck and overtime, gross $9,000 or $10,000 a year, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that it takes $9,977 a year for a family of four to maintain a moderate standard of living in New York City, where the living costs are higher than in any large U.S. city except Honolulu. These people, like the highly skilled members of the craft unions, who can earn more when business is good, tend to live in communities where ethnic ties are still strong. Whether they occupy one-and two-family row houses...
...provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic community seems as stirred as ever about the lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with a sharp antiwar speech. Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, who also heads the American Council on Education, said that his university will demonstrate that it is "a teacher and guardian of civilized values" by suspending normal classes on Moratorium Day to conduct a campus-wide dialogue...
...Gross raises such questions in a wide-ranging epilogue, answering them all with a graceful, regretful, thoroughly qualified "maybe." He more or less accepts the McLuhanite theory that the art of communication is passing from the straight, hard linear man of the Gutenberg Galaxy into the noisy psychedelic womb of sound, sensation, sniff, touch and hash. But he does not accept it gladly, and the later stars in the Caxton Constellation (an English group in Gutenberg's inky way) do much to disprove his own thesis. Paradoxically, too, so will his book itself, at least temporarily, if it achieves...