Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from behind campaign the hockey team staged two years ago. Harvard's battle to the top has been unanticipated. The fact that the cagers are in a three way tie for the first with just one weekend left could be called a pleasant surprise. But that would be a gross understatement...
...board expects the slowdown to continue right through the presidential election. Members look for the annual growth rate of the gross national product to fall from 5.2% in the first quarter to 4.1% in the fourth, with 4.5% expansion for the year...
...depicts the turmoil produced in Chile and other clearly South American countries by an export illustrates the conflict between a foreign investors' elite and an entrenched local elite descended from colonial Spaniards. He attacks his topic with both satire and allegory. The Ventures are so ludicrous that they seem gross caricatures of a complacent elite, if they are characters in a satire their death in the thistle storm represents a sort of poetic justice. But the survival of some of the family by huddling close to the ground makes an allegorical point the cleverest way to weather totalitarian storms...
...perjorative term. In its narrow sense, affirmative action is a policy required by federal contractors that has to do with employment. In a broader sense, I think it is social policy. If through an analysis of society, one finds that identifiable sub-groups of society are differentiated by significant gross disparities, one has to make the decision of whether or not that's good social policy, or whether or not it is in the interest of the society generally to try to shrink those disparities. One can do that by sort of saying. "Things will some day be better...
...suggestion that apartheid is the "price" South Africa has had to pay for its relative economic prosperity is illogical Apartheid, far from stimulating growth has hampered it. Had apartheid not been implemented, South Africa would today have a far larger gross national product and a vast, prosperous black consumer society. We would all, black and white, be better...