Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physicists may eventually render physics a "complete" science in the same way that he considers chemistry a complete science, lacking any "interesting" questions. He laments the lack of great contradictions such as those evident in early 20th century physics. From such contradictions the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics grew. In the absence of such contradictions, physics proceeds too smoothly, Glashow reasons, and becomes less interesting...
Master Charge grew from 5.7 million cardholders who charged $312 million worth of purchases in 1967 to 40 million holders-one out of every four adult Americans-who ran up bills of $13.5 billion last year. One major reason: banks deliberately offer the cards to many people who cannot meet the requirements of American Express and Diners Club for a minimum income of $10,000 a year. Chemical Bank in New York City says it "probably" will grant a Master Charge card to a person in his 20s who has been employed for only six months and earns...
...while, Linda continued to do what was expected of her. She put in a season as a debutante in Tucson and a semester at the University of Arizona. "The big goals with the girls I grew up with were going into a convent or getting married," she says. "I never wanted either one. I just wanted to go on the road." When she was 18, she left home and headed for Los Angeles to crash in the same house as a guitar player named Bob Kimmel...
...critically overpopulated Third World, birth rates are also tapering off. "Sometime near the beginning of this decade, the rate of world population growth reached an all-time high and then began to subside," notes Lester Brown, president of WorldWatch Institute, an international research organization. "In 1970 human numbers grew by an estimated 1.90%, an annual increase of 69 million. The most recent data show a marked decline since then, to 1.64%, an increase of 64 million a year...
...grew up in the Southwest where squash racquets are forsaken for phalanges and metacarpals (that's fingers and hands). Handball is played in the schools and sweaty YMCAs of towns with names such as Albuquerque, Amarillo and El Paso...