Word: grossed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today Kenya's economy is heavily dependent on foreign aid, which now totals $300 million a year, or about 10% of the country's gross national product. Explains an Agency for International Development economist stationed there: "People like to give money to Kenya. It's a sexy country...
...ludicrous to contend, as the administration does, that this constitutes "gross neglect of duties or other just cause," as is required in the faculty contract for firing professors. Such a stance by the university only serves to inflame tensions and provoke hostilities. Moreover, it is but one more example of the recalcitrance, intolerance, and mismanagement that has characterized Silber's administration. We urge B.U. to step back from this affront to academic freedom and to drop proceedings against the professors...
...office was to turn South Korea into a dynamic capitalist society on the Asian mainland, using Japan as a model. In this he succeeded. Since 1961, South Korea's per capita income has risen from $85 a year to around $1,500. South Korea now has a gross national product of some $50 billion (four times that of North Korea), and is a hard-bargaining rival to Japan in exports of steel, ships and textiles. New superhighways cut through the countryside; high-rise offices and apartments form towering sky lines in Korean cities. Rare among developing societies, South Korea...
...Senators told Carter upon returning to Washington, that was a gross understatement. ''We saw people in a makeshift hospital, lying under plastic sheets held up by poles,'' said Sasser at a press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving...
...contract between B.U. and its faculty allows the administration to fire or suspend tenured professors "upon gross neglect of duties, or other just cause...