Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence the outcome of political struggles around the globe. "By almost any measure, the Soviet Union is a vastly more formidable foe than it was only a decade ago," says the report. This buildup must be countered by increased and constant American defense spending, approximately at 6% of the gross national product. "A strong U.S. military posture remains the first requirement of a comprehensive, long-term U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union," the commission concludes. Top priority should be given to "improving the quality and readiness of those forces already in existence." It calls the volunteer Army a "failure...
...three networks scrambled to report the story, caution was the byword. No one wanted to repeat the gross reporting errors that were made the day President Reagan was attacked, most egregiously the reports that Press Secretary James Brady had died. Says ABC World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick: "All of us learned a lesson with James Brady." The networks also had the problem of reporting live on a story that was unfolding in Rome while most of their foreign crews were concentrated in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Early medical bulletins on the Pontiff swung wildly between Vatican...
...Harvard Tenants' Union (HTU) last night presented the Cambridge Rent Control Board with partial results of a survey on energy consumption and heating, which it said demonstrates a "gross form of mismanagement" by Harvard Real Estate...
...East Asian Legal Forum. This is the most alarming news at Harvard in years. Yet you reported nothing of it on Friday, April 24. You buried it on Saturday under an article about a broken water main. And you reported nothing of it on Monday. Your neglect is a gross dereliction of your journalistic duty...
...knows how much it would cost to modernize the entire infrastructure of the U.S. economy. Pat Choate, co-author of the America in Ruins study, estimates that the task could take as much as $3 trillion, roughly the amount of the annual gross national product at present. Amitai Etzioni, director of the Center for Policy Research, believes that more than $400 billion should be invested over the next decade on railroads, highways and bridges. The total value of all government-sponsored construction on those projects last year was $23.4 billion...