Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back home in Australia, Holt was just as steady. He pushed industrial and natural-resource development programs that are now raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...
Last year American firms invested $10.2 billion, or about 14% of all their capital spending on plant and equipment, in ventures outside the U.S. This rising annual amount brought their total overseas ante to $64.8 billion, more than the gross national product of many a nation, and eight times the amount foreign businessmen have invested in the U.S. in the 191 years of the Republic. Americans now control 80% of Europe's computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its automaking, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil. In Britain, U.S. companies own half...
...West German government, which sent Bonn University Law Professor Gerhard Griinwald to observe the trial, is still angry over the "gross violation" of its sovereignty in the original arrests. On hearing the verdict, the Bundestag discussed the issue for two hours. Bonn made plain that it was still considering retaliatory action, ranging from a cutoff in the $25 million in aid that it plans to give South Korea next year to a break in diplomatic relations...
...Gross, who was appointed by Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Ed School and official director of Harvard Upward Bound, will replace David Swanger. Swanger has run Upward Bound since its establishment two years ago, and he will remain as executive director until the end of this year. Gross will work under him until that time...
...possible change for next year, Gross said, would be to make the summer portion of the Harvard program residential. At the present time, students involved participate on a daily basis...