Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIREWORKS, the very people at whom the charges were aimed--school administrators--haven't taken WEAL or the students seriously. Realizing the Department of Labor won't fine the school in gross violation of flaccid affirmative action laws, they have skirted the issue, dishing out occasional tidbits of reform to pacify student activists and federal investigators without really changing anything. They have sought refuge under charges that WEAL's statistics are inaccurate--ignoring that even the school's slightly amended figures give it a shamefully small minority and woman population. They have hidden behind claims that they made "serious offers...
...would take 18 months to two years for results to show, but that timetable is nearly up and the turnaround is nowhere in sight. Inflation, 10% when the conservatives came in, is now 15%, though that is a considerable improvement from a high of 22% last summer. The gross national product has fallen from 1.5% growth in 1978-79 to a negative 3% for 1979-80. Some 10,000 businesses went bankrupt, a record. Unemployment climbed by a phenomenal 66% in 1980 ?and 86% since Thatcher took office. In the manufacturing regions of the north, 14.8% of the male...
...Soviet Union. I certainly agree. I make a dispassionate assessment of my potential enemy, his objectives, his methods-and I don't believe the Soviet Union changes its objectives, it merely changes its methods. I may not know its motives, but I know the fantastic proportion of its gross national product that it puts into armaments. I know that being in a substantially landlocked country, with most of its supplies coming across land, it does not need such a big, big navy. It does not need so many submarines. Why then, is it doing these things? I know that...
...contrast, the slumping British economy is in terrible shape. Unemployment is now 8.8%, and the British gross national product is expected to decline by 2% this year. Yet sales of North Sea oil have cut British dependence on imported crude, pushed the nation's balance of payments into the black, and kept the pound strong on international money markets. In fact, the British government has become concerned that its currency is too strong, and last week Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said that the value of the pound should decline...
Meeting in the Boylston Auditorium, about 50 club members also elected Dennis C. Shea '83 of Winthrop House as vice-president, John Manning '82 of Quincy House as treasurer, and Greg J. Gross '83 of Quincy House as Secretary. All assume office immediately, Michael T. Kerr '81, outgoing president, said yesterday...