Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Upward-bound officers often find themselves allied with contractors in an effort to convince the Pentagon and others that their project should be built. The temptation is to underestimate costs at the beginning. Admits Army Under Secretary James Ambrose: "It almost seems an institutional phenomenon that projects start with gross underestimates by both Government and the contractor...
...slow. "We may just have a long, flat bottom with very little growth," said Feldstein, adding wryly, "Only professional economists will know that the recession is over." Even by year's end, according to the board's forecast, unemployment will still hover at 8.7%. Growth in the gross national product is expected to accelerate gradually from 1.8% this year to 3.9% in 1983, a pace that would be only about half as strong as after other postwar recessions. Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, warned that the economy may stall again within a year...
Under the terms of the agreement Celanese Corporation will be able to file for patents under Yale's name if any inventions result from the research the chemical company will get exclusive licensing rights for these patent and give Yale two percent of gross sales as royalties. Joseph S. Warner Yale's director of grant and contract administration said yesterday...
...compared with the 14,000-member Salvadoran army, have aimed at destroying or dominating transportation and communication links. They have often been highly successful: last August, up to 75% of the country was without electricity at one time or another due to guerrilla attacks. El Salvador's gross national product, which grew by 4.4% as recently as 1978, shrank by 19.5% last year. A decline in world prices for such exports as coffee, cotton and sugar is a factor in the slump, but the war has brought new investment to a halt and driven many businessmen to close their...
...arguing that they will constitute a smaller proportion of a larger economy than before. The claim is a very weak reed to lean on. During Jimmy Carter's peak deficit year of 1980, the red ink reached $59.5 billion, or 2.3% of the nation's $2.6 trillion gross national product. By contrast, the CBO's projected Reagan deficit of $109 billion for fiscal 1982 will be at least 3.6% of the G.N.P., or within .3 of a percentage point of the previous biggest deficit year in the nation's peacetime history, 1976, when Gerald Ford...