Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cites Airbus Industries. That choice would be hilarious, if it were not quite so bizarre: most Europeans are hardly bursting with pride over the alleged success of Airbus. It is the classic case of the "infant industry" that refuses to grow up, constantly sucking in subsidies which have promoted gross inefficiency and stifled innovation...
...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) excluded the proposal as a voting issue from the May shareholders meeting after PepsiCo applied for an exemption on the grounds that its sales in Burma were less than five percent of net earnings and gross sales...
When I was trying to get into Harvard--when Harvard was still an ideal--it was my instinct to defend the school from these gross generalizations. Harvard couldn't be arrogant. Harvard doesn't have one face. It is a university of all walks of life with energy focused in every direction. Yet in the first few months of my Harvard career, my faith in Harvard's humility has been weakened...
...display) worth another look. That holds for at least two of his colored chalk sketches. Certainly "Four Nuns at the Beach" took no more than two minutes to finish and Feininger never would have thought to exhibit such things himself, but framed and mounted these sketches arrest attention in gross disproportion to the scant markings that define them...
...wireless voice message endures as an alternative to the gross and growing limitations of United States newspapers and broadcast journalism aimed at lower-class audiences, and to the continuing narrowness of the World Wide Web. In a post-1960s university, overseas radio offers a portal opening on planetary discussion, albeit a portal open far wider to undergraduates learned in languages other than English...