Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dealt a fatal blow to private insurance in the rest of the country. While 83% of U.S. thrifts are federally insured, 30 states allow at least some of their banks, thrifts or credit unions to rely on private coverage. Many institutions that are small or in a hurry to grow prefer local insurance funds because they tend to be less strict than federal regulators. Old Court, for example, was able to boast money-market accounts with interest rates of up to 11%, compared with about 8.5% offered by federally insured thrifts...
...hoary belief involves dinosaur stupidity: the hapless creatures died out because their bodies continued to grow bigger while their brains remained small. Indeed, cranium measurements seem to indicate that at least some species were not terribly cerebral: one type of brontosaurus, for example, weighed about 30 tons, and probably had only a half-pound brain. If the dinosaurs did indeed become progressively less intelligent, the theory goes, they would have lost the ability to adapt to changes in the environment...
...plates are continually on the move, bumping and grinding against each other to produce earthquakes and mountains, or separating to tug apart land masses and rearrange the oceans. When sea levels change, they reasoned, animal habitats in low-lying areas may be destroyed, or the climate farther inland may grow more extreme...
...crime, their solution establishes a dangerous incentive for continuing high levels of imprisonment. If we spend billions of dollars building new prisons, they will surety be used. The baby-boom generation is rapidly aging. It seems likely that--provided levels of poverty in this country do not continue to grow and thereby feed crime--the number of criminals in the U.S. should soon decline along this demographic trend. The more prisons we build, the greater will be the temptation to imprison people for minor offenses or to neglect taking measures against the social causes of crime...
...fighting campaign. Jackson, Reynolds told us, believes that unless our youth stop clotting their souls with LSD, our soldiers and our leaders will soon lose touch with purity and threaten our national security. Jackson, he said, has decided that moral purity is the only true base from which to grow...