Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admittedly William Faulkner had much to say about the racial issue and did much to clarify the historical and psychological patterns that motivate racist activity in the South. However, it is a gross mistake to leave the impression that his fame rests on this fact. A thousand years from now, when other issues dominate the mass media of the day, William Faulkner will still be recognized (along with Shakespeare, Milton and others) as a giant among literary artists. William Faulkner used the myth of the South to embody universal answers to universal questions-not to explain the racial situation...
...quite candid. It is inept of the all too clever people when they say, 'We must go easy on Erhard, we need him for the 1965 elections.' Ladies and gentlemen, I am telling you here and now that this is a gross deception. I make policy for Germany and not for the elections...
...rising tide-it lifts everyone's boat, enabling big and small business alike to prosper. The tide is still coming in strong: the Federal Reserve Board last week released record industrial production figures for June, and President Johnson personally announced "notable advances" for the second quarter in gross national product (a new record), nonfarm employment (another new record), and personal income. But the tide does not seem to be lifting everyone equally, and the Senate Select Committee on Small Business has just produced another, less pleasant nautical metaphor. As the committee sees it, U.S. small business is "floundering...
...months ago, small businesses-those firms with fewer than 250 employees-did more than half the business in the U.S. In the advance, however, the 4,600,000 firms that make up the small business community have accounted for little more than 40% of the $100 billion gain in gross national product and no more than 25% of the $130 billion spent on business expansion. The profits of small retailers and manufacturers are growing at less than half the pace of their big brothers; the number of small manufacturing firms has been declining since 1957. Wrote Democratic Senator William Proxmire...
...Ohio U.S. Senator still represents 4,900,000 citizens, while one U.S. Senator from Nevada represents only 143,000 citizens. This is gross voter discrimination. Perhaps somebody will start court action to force all U.S. Senators to run at large or, better still, to determine if the Constitution is still constitutional...