Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect this is partly because his argument is composed largely of the platitudes of corporate consulting, such as "asking more and demanding less." It seems clear, however, than anyone who can write, without apparent irony, that Harvard should be "a 'Nordstrom's' of the higher education industry" has a gross misconception of the purpose of universities...
...BILLION Gross domestic product of Saudi Arabia...
...bantering and not-so-bantering insults. They likened themselves to "a pair of scissors" or, as Taylor put it, "chicken feathers to tar." Yet she admired and studied his skills at Shakespeare, poetry and literature, and he loved her ability to keep up with him--in everything. But booze, gross amounts of it, did in the marriage. In 1973 they split. Miserable apart, they remarried in 1975, only to break up in four months...
...James A. Gross, a colleague of Clete's at SILS who recently wrote a four-volume history chronicling labor relationships stemming from the 1935 Wagner Act, says the issue is larger than if Harvard is merely playing within the legal boundaries...
...Gross, Harvard's tendency to see itself simply as an employer, although entirely legal, is a moral failure for the greater goals of the University...