Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson apologizes for a gross inaccuracy in yesterday's edition. The headline over the swimming story stated that Harvard finished tenth. The swimmers came in eighth, as the story correctly reported...
...expenditures cannot be precisely audited because they are largely hidden. Nonetheless, it is generally believed that Moscow's recent defense spending has been roughly equivalent to Washington's military budget (after the $30-billion-a-year cost of Viet Nam is subtracted from the U.S. figure). Yet the Russian gross national product is only about half of the American G.N.P...
...living." So even though he admits to being "an unlettered bum" who has read nothing murkier than Hemingway and Steinbeck, Mr. Breslin is turning novelist. His first novel isn't quite finished, but MGM has already bought the screen rights for $250,000, plus a cut of the gross. Titled The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, it is about the lighter side of the Mafia. To command those prices, Jimmy's agent must be a Sicilian who can shoot straight...
...decade ago, now stand at $15,000 and are likely to go higher. Today the long-impecunious college professors average $18,000, and in private universities $21,000. Many supplement their base pay with consulting jobs at up to $250 a day; professors of business may gross as much as $60,000 a year...
...square foot, more than ten times the price of comparable U.S. industrial sites. About 140 U.S. firms have moved their offices from Japan to Hong Kong, and foreign investors have been attracted by the fact that the colony has no capital gains tax and a maximum tax on gross income of only 15%. Wages remain low, averaging $13.50 for a 50-hour week, but per capita annual income has risen in three years from...