Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a month, you can feel your hairs grow, second by second; after two months, you notice when one of your cells dies...
...country's largest city, was criticized last spring by Peking for refusing to send its bonus taxes to the central government. The People's Daily reported that half of all state- and collectively run enterprises were cheating on their taxes. Deng's government is concerned that jealousies could grow even further among China's many regions, thus affecting the pace of reform. This may intensify the need for the Deng leadership to forge a national vision that goes beyond Communism. Hu Yaobang recently told the party's propaganda department that "the most important political task of literary and artistic creation...
...size ambitions will enhance, or merely overwhelm, the small screen. Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which will follow Spielberg's show on Sunday nights, will consist largely of remakes of old Hitchcock episodes. That ploy worked surprisingly well in a TV movie last spring that spawned the series, but it could grow tiresome as the nostalgia wears...
...plans on the drawing board. On Sept. 3, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will launch the nation's first multistate lottery. In 1985 government-sponsored gambling is expected to generate revenues of $10 billion and net the states $4.1 billion. As lotteries reach across the U.S., criticism will doubtless grow. But with billions at stake and new tax revenue hard to come by, it would be risky to bet that the politicians will pay much attention, or that millions of ticket buyers want them...
Washington charges the kgb with using "spy dust" and decides to test a new antisatellite weapon, as superpower relations grow chillier. Reagan rests up + at the ranch and braces for a taxing...