Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to the Crimson (Oct. 29, "Law School Stifling Activism") was a deeply personal one. I was upset over what I believed were gross injustices to people I knew and respected highly, and I wanted some means of expressing my anger and dismay...
Supporters of testing in general argue that it is justified by pressing requirements of public health and safety. In August the Tennessee Valley Authority began using urinalysis to check all new nuclear-plant employees for drug use because, says Joe Gross, chief of employment, "we're very concerned about nuclear-plant safety, and this is one aspect of it--having a work force free of alcohol or drug abuse." Southern Pacific Railway claims that since it began drug and alcohol screening last year, on-the-job accidents and injuries attributed to human error have dropped by nearly...
...provided us with our first exposure to the media. We weren't used to it, and we had no idea how we were supposed to respond. We went out of our way to gross...
...today's Boston Globe, Safran is quoted as saying that yesterday's Crimson story about the CIA funding of the conference made "gross distortions." The Globe said he declined to confirm or deny any specific statements published in The Crimson's account...
...haggling went on through the night last week as Japan's top finance and defense officials debated a perennially sensitive question: whether or not to exceed an informal cap on military spending that since 1976 has been held to less than l% of the country's gross national product. Finally, the ministers agreed on what the government later called an "epochal" solution. They approved a five-year, $76 billion defense spending plan that would involve annual average outlays...