Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout the week, events had seemed to grow increasingly surreal as the hostages, whose freedom seemed so tantalizingly out of reach, were continually shown on television eating, talking and even driving themselves around Beirut with their captors. For days, Amal guards brought small groups of hostages before television camera crews for interviews that were replayed incessantly in the U.S. Though some of the hostages confessed to depression and anxiety, others, presumably to reassure their watching families, mugged and shouted "Hi, Mom!" as if they had been filmed at a picnic. White House officials protested that television was playing into...
...economic future rests with the Federal Reserve Board, which has been allowing the money supply to grow rapidly. If credit costs are to fall further, the Fed will have to continue supplying the economy with ample funds. Said Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The Fed has come to the rescue, and I think they will continue to be on the easy side...
...EVER WONDER why Dexter Gate (on Mass. Ave near Lamont Library), which tells thousands of Harvardians every year to "Enter to Grow in Wisdom," is always locked at night? Does Harvard not want you to grow in wisdom after sundown? Is growing in wisdom just a nine-to-five...
...takes a lot of smarts to figure out why Harvard has such a strange Yard-entry policy. Maybe the phrase atop the gate should read "To Enter, Grow in Wisdom." Then again, since you can only get into the Yard through the wide gates, the phrase should read "To Enter in Wisdom, Grow...
Despite the reservations, smart buildings appear to have no place to go but up. Last year nearly $100 million worth of communications equipment was sold to smart buildings, and analysts predict that the market will grow to $3 billion a year by 1990, when the U.S. may have as many as 1,600 smart buildings. Already Cushman's Dallas-based property manager, Jay Dee Allen, says that fully half his inquiries concern space in smart buildings. "Smart technology makes it easier to attract tenants," says Larry Guilmette, manager of Bronson and Hutensky, a co-developer of Hartford's CityPlace...