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Word: grow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of his Hollywood producer-director father. McInerney has an unfortunate penchant for Christian metaphors, and his story is heavy with meditations about redemption. A pity; the rest of the way he is as good as the pre-Garp John Irving. All McInerney needs, like his heroes, is to grow up a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 14, 1985 | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, fears about toxic wastes continue to grow. Each day more and more communities discover that they are living near dumps or atop ground that has been contaminated by chemicals whose once strange names and initials--dioxin, vinyl chloride, PBB and PCB, as well as such familiar toxins as lead, mercury and arsenic--have become household synonyms for mysterious and deadly poisons. "The problem is worse than it was five years ago," contends New Jersey Democrat James Florio, who as a Congressman from one of the most seriously contaminated states became the key author of the 1980 Superfund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...would also be well-advised to do so before we all grow too old to care...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: A Foolish Consistency | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

Dushay comes to Harvard with a string of successes behind her, and, if her impressive performances in her first two meets in a Crimson uniform are any indication, that string will continue to grow...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Jody Dushay | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...risk can be greater for a small firm. At General Research in Santa Barbara, SDI contracts accounted for more than 8% of revenues in fiscal 1985, and that percentage is likely to grow rapidly. Nonetheless, says Leslie Wells, an assistant to the company's president, "we're not putting all our eggs in the SDI basket. It's not something that's going to cause the company to come to a screeching halt if it's discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star Wars Sweepstakes | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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