Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racism is the child of ignorance, of gross generalizations and oversimplifications, of labelling and stereotyping individuals Professor Kilson is guilty of such generalizations. For him there exist two types of Black students, "parochial," and "cosmopolitans," the former being wrong and the latter right. We reject this artificial dichotomy. What Professor Kilson denigrates as parochial, we celebrate as the much needed expression of the beauty of our culturally diverse Harvard community...
...freshmen receives some federal aid. Reagan would like to cut the program by nearly a fourth, claiming that it helps too many affluent families send their children to expensive private colleges. The President would cut off grants, direct loans, and subsidized jobs for students from families whose adjusted gross income exceeds $32,500. The budget would reduce loans by nearly $4 billion over the next three years and would place a $4,000 annual ceiling on aid to all students...
Such forecasts reflect bullish signs on the economic front. The Federal Government reported last week that business activity was healthier in 1984 than at any other time in recent memory. The gross national product grew 6.8% during the year, for the largest increase since 1951. Inflation, meanwhile, was just 3.7% for the year as a whole, the lowest since 1967. Said Jones: "We may be entering a new golden age similar to the 1960s, when we had both low inflation and solid growth...
...country; its inhabitants are so poor that they are known as "the afflicted ones." A recurrent theme of the press conference was inflation, which is now increasing at an annual rate of about 230%. Neves said that cuts in public spending are vital, but vowed "not to commit the gross mistake of using recession as a deflationary instrument. On the contrary, we will promote the resumption of growth...
...World War II that real personal disposable income declined in France. The others were 1980 and 1982. The Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand, he said, is still paying for the illfated attempt to spend its way out of recession during its first year of power, in 1981. The gross national product grew by 1.5% last year, and Chevalier expects it to be just 1.1% in 1985. One reward for this austerity is an anticipated decline in inflation, from last year's 6.9% to about 5.8% by the end of this year. The huge trade deficit, which reached $14 billion...