Word: grew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic values we grew up on are changed whether we like it or not during our service here. Every day children are being hurt. The Chief of Staff said it would take time. But the time is long, and the price is high...
...wears me down as a person. It breaks me. These are not the values I grew...
Ronald Harmon Brown developed his social skills at a most unlikely place: the once famous Theresa Hotel on 125th Street in Harlem, where he grew up. His father was the manager, a celebrated fixture in the community. His mother was socially prominent. Ron was their only child. The hotel was alive with entertainers, politicians, doctors, lawyers and sports heroes, black and white...
...provoking fights at intersections," he says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors I stuck my fist through, indentations in walls I kicked." Chamberlain grew so despondent, he recalls, that he "held a gun to my head once or twice." Others have succeeded in committing suicide. Warns Aaron Henry, 22, a St. Charles, Mo., drug counselor whose adolescent dependence on steroids drove him close to physical and mental ruin: "When you put big egos and big dreams together with steroids...
...chatter made plain that Gorbachev's power is neither monolithic nor unfettered. At the heart of his woes is the apparent failure of his perestroika campaign to jump-start the Soviet economy. A report put out by the Council of Ministers last week showed that, while the Soviet economy grew by 4.4% last year, farms and factories failed to produce enough quality goods to satisfy consumer demand. With wages now growing faster than productivity, inflation threatens. Other figures indicated that exports fell by 2% in 1988, while imports (much of it food) rose by 6.5%. "The honeymoon for Gorbachev...