Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronics business. The Freedom Electronics and Engineering plant employs 33 full time workers, making computer power supplies, and assembling coaxial cable and plastic circuit boards. Opened in October 1968, the plant already has assembly contracts with Digital Equipment Corporation, RCA, and Western Electric, amounting to $800,000 gross sales. Bent on developing the division to the point where it is competitive with similar operations outside the ghetto, Williams predicts that gross sales will double over the next two months...
...billion. Each year, 27 million Americans go into a general hospital, where they spend an average of 8.2 days and get a bill of $530, about half of which is covered by insurance. The total cost of U.S. medical care is now $53 billion a year?5.9% of the gross national product, or 7.5% of all personal income. These figures are far higher than those for other Western countries with at least equivalent quality of care...
Hospitals are big business. Yet according to Jerome Pollack, professor of medical economics at Harvard Medical School, they are a prime example of gross mismanagement. Hospitals are run by boards of trustees, made up mostly of businessmen, who would never dream of running their own corporations the way they try to operate a hospital...
...Gross Mismanagement...
...would question, however, that Harvard students come from generally high-income families. Mr. MacEwan, however, draws the conclusion that "the survey provides an economic lesson about the tie between education and income." I would suggest that to turn "Harvard" into "education" is a gross distortion. It is ironic, also, since so many Harvard "radicals" think they know much more than anyone else about the nation's problems...