Word: grosses
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...deficit permanently. The President wants to boost outlays for education, law enforcement, science and AIDS research -- all worthy proposals -- but steadfastly refuses to support tax hikes to finance increased spending over the long run. Moreover, Reagan's budget projections are based on the decidedly optimistic assumption that the gross national product will grow an average 3.2% annually over the next five years. Even with that rosy projection, the Administration forecasts a deficit of $51.1 billion in 1992 and $23.3 billion in 1993. The President who campaigned on a promise that he would balance the budget...
Many economic analysts think the new union upsurge is a product of Britain's current prosperity. Since 1980 the British gross domestic product has risen by 19.8%, while company profits have surged. Says Ernie Velox, an assembly-line worker at Ford's 560-acre plant in Dagenham, England: "They're making major profits. Now we're asking for something...
Today's Crimson includes a story about the alleged "racial insensitivity" I displayed in my lectures in Historical Studies A-25, "The Peopling of America," last term. The remarks by Ms. Grantham and Rutter quoted in the piece are gross distortions and misrepresentations of what I actually said in the course. These are issues far too complicated to sort out in the pages of the Crimson. I have always been open to questions from the floor in lecture and to discussions after class, and spend most of my office time with the door open to any student who wants...
...Students have always provided enthusiasm and excitement," says Ariela J. Gross '87, national student coordinator for the Michael S. Dukakis For President campaign. More importantly, in small states like New Hampshire student volunteers can reach enough registered voters to make the difference between and upset victory and a suprising defeat, workers say. An early win New Hampshire or elsewhere, can build momentum for a presidential race, while a poor showing can kill a candidate's hopes at the beginning of a campaign...
Dukakis' young campaign workers last fall tried another campaign technique. Gross says college students helped create the first-ever satellite conference in a presidential election when Dukakis addressed students in 56 colleges in 25 states via a satellite hookup last November...