Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gross and perhaps intentional oversight the student-Faculty Dowling committee formed by John B Fox Jr. dean of the College, had no minority members Because an important and significant portion of the undergraduate population went unrepresented, the Dowling report did not include any provisions to insure that the new government would represent these students and their special needs The constitution committee set out to correct this inadequacy and this proved to be a difficult and time consuming task...
...projects to tuition increases to tenuring faculty to investment policy. His appraisal couldn't be more accurate--and it suggests some serious problems with Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors. In particular, we worry about the Corporation's total unaccountability to the current Harvard community and its gross lack of internal diversity...
...machinery may take years, a-which time the molds of obsolescence start to sprout. Dunnigan, author of The Complete Wargames Handbook, a consultant to the Defense Department and lecturer at U.S. service academies, has facts and figures in reserve. The Soviet Union puts 14% of its gross national product into arms. The U.S. spends 7% of its larger G.N.P., and Japan less than 2% of the earned wealth from its consumer-products society. By some inscrutable jujitsu of the defeated and the disarmed, Japan is winning the peace...
...Ambassador to El Salvador Deane Hinton and complained that he "got along very badly" with the general, who had energetically demanded more U.S. military aid. For his part, Pell told Garcia that "Congress would not continue to authorize unlimited funds for El Salvador if there continued to be gross violations [of human rights], gross assassinations and cruel murders...
...refusal to sell Alaskan oil to his country and the Allies post-World War II limit on Japan's defense spending have also added to the trade deficit, Amaya said. Japan's defense budget is limited to less than two percent of its gross national product...