Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter appreciated these moves, and Vance's influence with him grew steadily. The President, however, still vacillates between the Vance and Brzezinski approaches to the Russians. Increasingly, Vance tends to prevail on the practical tactics to be taken in pursuing agreed-upon foreign policy goals...
...terrorist problem grew, the government began changing the rules. In 1974 the parliament in Bonn adopted a law permitting the exclusion of defense counsel if he or she were suspected of participating with the defendants in their criminal acts or obstructing justice. Last year, after Schleyer's kidnaping, parliament enacted a "contact ban," permitting courts to cut off terrorist prisoners from all outside communication-including their lawyers under certain circumstances. Last week the Bundestag passed new antiterror rules that would further restrict the rights of defendants and their attorneys. Among them: placing a physical barrier between a lawyer...
...money is awesome. Starting back home in North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean Securities Inc., he invested in a life insurance venture and real estate holdings through the South and Southwest, including Pinehurst...
Moving at a 34 strokes-per-minute clip, the women in black picked up nearly a seat a stroke following the settle, and by the 300-meter mark they owned a lead of just under a length. By the halfway mark the lead grew to a full length, where it held steady until the closing sprint...
Benton had the boat sprint over the last 30 strokes, and it was over that short stretch that the lead grew to eight seconds by the finish...