Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upstart airlines are merely sweeping up the crumbs abandoned by the majors, carrying 15% of the passengers for less than 10% of the gross. But at some point, perhaps this summer, the fledglings' growth will run smack up against the majors' need to protect or expand revenues. When that happens, says Michael Boyd, president of Aviation Systems Research Corp. in Golden, Colorado, the skies may grow turbulent again. "If the majors find their core market being taken [by the upstarts]," he says, "they will turn on them." Already Northwest and American have started to discount. Rising fuel prices could turn...
...This is gross misconduct by the [HUPD] that deserves an internal investigation," Afrasiabi said...
Bill sponsor Eric M. Nelson '99 thinks the problem has not been the conception of the bill, but its gross misuse by council members...
...hope that The Crimson will print some correction to this gross inaccuracy. --Woody and Hanna Hastings Co-Masters, Pforzheimer House
...rarely come into contact with prospective job applicants. Sheltered in the suburbs and operating in a world of limited information, their knowledge of black America is limited to the stereotypical images of ghetto crime, moral depravity and welfare dependency broadcast by the mass media. These generalizations, of course, are gross distortions of reality. But repeated falsehoods pass for truth...