Word: grew
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...college basketball, as well as other sports. That would be good for the schools and good for sport. If colleges and universities assumed their responsibility as institutions of higher learning and if sports programs were kept in perspective, more student athletes might turn out like Fred Brown. Fred grew up on the gritty streets of the South Bronx. His father was taken off to prison when the boy was in third grade. His mother worked in a grocery and tended bar. On the $4,000 she made, she raised a family of six. But Fred had a way with...
...Heidi Chronicles tells of a heroine who grew up a feminist, as did the writer, in a tale that tempers anger with humor and a sense of loneliness...
...problems escalate when nations print more money in order to pay back their debts, causing hyper-inflation. In Bolivia inflation grew to 24,000 percent. The government had to give its employees raises at a rate approaching that of inflation. They only took in taxes at properties assessed at the previous year's rate. For this reason, countries found themselves in even worse financial straits, with rapidly burgeoning deficits...
...start in 1922. That year, in a small office on 17th Street in Manhattan, two young men, Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, wrote a prospectus for a radically new magazine that became TIME. Hadden lived only long enough to see TIME become a success; under Luce, Time Inc. grew into the largest magazine publisher in the U.S. When Luce died in 1967, Time Inc. had four magazines. Today it publishes 13 and is part owner of another eleven. Along the way it also became one of America's most significant book, video and cable-TV companies...
...grew up in Duluth, and I always wanted to be a [University of Minnesota-Duluth] Bulldog," Vukonich says. "In our town everything was UMD hockey. But as I grew older, I realized I wanted to go away a little...