Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman stories. Some are funny; most are ordinary. Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...from our side. We inherited this debt when most Filipinos had no say on how this money was going to be spent. So when I meet with our creditor banks, I will ask them to give us more liberal terms. We have to be given the chance to grow, and we cannot do so if we have to continue paying 50% of our export earnings in interest payments...
This week's Special Report on the U.S. drug crisis is TIME's third cover- length examination of the subject in the past 19 months. In delving into a problem that seems to grow steadily more acute, TIME correspondents around the country talked with sources ranging from drug pushers to medical experts. Their findings were frequently chilling...
...major airports, the TCA, often described as an upside-down wedding cake, is a restricted area; planes must receive permission from an air controller to enter it. The unusually complex Los Angeles TCA has a uniform ceiling of 7,000 ft., but its twelve sectors have varying floors that grow lower as planes get closer to LAX. The Torrance airport lies under this TCA, at a point where the floor...
...cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people in education, mental health and the arts became known as "the First Lady of Texas...