Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notice, and imprisoned from two to five years in 10 barbed-wire "concentration camps" (the term actually used in the private inter-office government memos) located in some of the least hospitable parts of our nation. The internees were subject to overcrowding, housing in horse stalls and tarpaper shacks, gross lack of privacy, poor sanitation and inadequate food. Dozens of internees were shot and wounded by the armed guards, some committed suicide out of over-whelming despair, and many more died prematurely due to the inadequate medical facilities and the harsh environment. These are just some of the well-documented...
...must guard against the tendency to be indifferent simply because so much time has passed. It's to easy not to care. It's too easy for McCloy to argue that we should forgive and forget--when he himself wasn't the victim. The internment was such a gross violation of basic human rights a raping of human dignity, that this sorry event should never be forgotten. The honoring of this man is a slap in the face of all Japanese-Americans, an insult to their very identities, telling that even after they've been through, that they still...
...TIME board was particularly heartened by the rapidly brightening outlook for consumer spending, which accounts for some two-thirds of the U.S. gross national product. As a result, the board now predicts that G.N.P. will grow at a robust annual rate of 6% in the second quarter. That represents a significant increase from the 4.3% rate members forecast when they met in February, and would approach the 7% clip that postwar recoveries have averaged during the first year after a recession...
...renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days symbolically occupied Stern's editorial offices. The protest compelled Nannen to drop a newly named co-editor from outside the magazine, Business Journalist Johannes Gross, whom staffers labeled too conservative, and to pledge that the magazine would continue in a "progressive-liberal" (actually, leftwing) tradition of journalism. Other publications hailed, as a "first in German journalistic history," the rights that Stern staffers had won. But Stern's employees declared that ending the sit-in was only...
...deflect the discontent, Nannen named two outsiders, Business Journalist Johannes Gross and Television Executive Peter Scholl-Latour, as co-publishers and editors in chief. The magazine's management also returned $200,000 that had been paid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for British and Commonwealth publication rights. The placatory efforts backfired. In a statement, some 200 editorial employees labeled the episode "a severe blow against 35 years of Stern credibility." About 100 staffers staged a sit-in at Stern's offices to protest the hiring of Gross and Scholl-Latour because their jobs would merge business...