Word: grossness
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...Before the current financial crisis began in 2007, U.S. corporate profits were at their highest level ever, both in absolute terms and as a percentage of gross domestic product. It's awfully hard to imagine a return to that kind of profitability anytime soon. Welcome to the new normal...
...Even Jaeger admits that the gross ramifications of the financial decline have alerted the union to the absence of University leadership when it comes to thinking beyond calculations and figures. “The main thing [central administrators] really do is set that number,” Jaeger says. “We wish they were doing more than that to really lead or to advise the schools and departments as to how to cope...
...University and College issues. Between 2005 and 2006, University President Lawrence H. Summers’s tumultuous relationship with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and ultimate resignation shifted focus away from calendar reform, ultimately delaying the J-Term discussion.During this period, then-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 made developing General Education, increasing student social space and improving student advising his priorities.In spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council reignited the discussion, calling for a student referendum on support for the calendar revision. Of the 3,467 students who voted, 84 percent responded in favor...
...Other issues, such as the question of whether students will play a role in the disciplinary process, are still up in the air. The changes come after a year-long review process of the disciplinary body by the Ad Board Review Committee. Former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 first proposed that the College review the procedures of the Ad Board in Spring 2007, and Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam convened a small review committee in November 2007. The group presented its findings to Hammonds on March 6, many of which will...
...another $410 billion spending bill. After promising to end the Republican tenure of pork-barrel spending, these massive bills included titanic lists of pork projects. The projected budget deficit for the fiscal year 2009 grew to $1.8 trillion, or a shocking and nearly unprecedented 12.3 percent of our gross domestic product. They then proceeded to pass a new record-breaking $3.6 trillion budget for the upcoming year...