Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the onset, Harvard (8-0) was challenged. Coach Chris Hafferty, who expected close games from both MIT and Queens, immediately saw one prediction become a gross reality Friday night as MIT gave Harvard one of its most thrilling scares of the season before Harvard pulled...
...this? Because big-time sports, whose popularity is fueled by ever increasing TV coverage, are major moneymakers. For one thing, a winning team attracts alumni donations. Far more lucrative, however, are the direct revenues generated by sporting events. Last year's NCAA basketball tournament was worth $68.2 million in gross receipts; the four schools advancing to the final round got $1.2 million each. Virtually all those funds go to athletic departments rather than academic budgets. Top coaches share in the wealth, often making several times as much as university presidents. Some earn more than $500,000 a year from salary...
...Lorenzo's stripping of Eastern's valuable assets constitutes, at a minimum, gross mismanagement and incompetence," the pilots union said...
...YORK--Eastern Airlines pilots, accusing Chairperson Frank Lorenzo of "gross mismanagement and incompetence," have asked a bankruptcy judge to appoint an independent trustee to run the strikecrippled carrier...
...delightful new surprise; never before has a group of Harvard men so vehemently banded around this cause. Maybe these students would like to join Harvard women in a march sometime? I don't know if I'm making myself clear here, but let me be blunt--there's a gross double standard being used in these arguments...