Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tune, Aida Lottapasta's "I'm Hungry in More Ways Than One," is downright gross. You could see members of the audience grimacing at each horrible line of the all-too-explicit song...
Matthew Eichner '87 described it as "best formal I've been to while at Harvard," while Steven Gross '87 said he was glad to see the classmates he had met during Freshman Week. "It was a lot like looking through the facebook, because you haven't seen them since French A and Expos," he said...
...fact also is that U.S. health care expenditures total some $450 billion per annum. And that number is also rising. Health care expenditures add up to almost 11 percent of our Gross National Product. Thus the average American works six and a half weeks per year to pay for health care. (Canadians work only about four and a half weeks to pay for theirs...
What is remarkable about the current cutbacks is that they come at a time when the gross national product is expanding at a respectable 2.5% annual rate. The goal of the slimming exercise, then, is not merely to compensate for hard times -- though a quick fix for short-term profits is always welcome -- but to have a permanent effect. Says Alfred Rappaport, an accounting professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management: "Restructuring will be a way of life for a long, long time." Reason: the forces that prompted the movement are still growing in power and momentum...
Mellon Faculty Fellow in Comparative Literature Irena G. Gross taught a six-person seminar this fall on cross-cultural perceptions in travel literature, and said she "loved the opportunity to have direct contact with the students...