Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roared in an icy smother around the curve and dropped off down the glassy run below." The ands do it. Everything must keep moving. Housman celebrated an "athlete dying young" because the boy would never have to learn that eventually things slow down, grow old, stop...
...first gold medal on parallel bars at the 1981 world championships in Moscow. Last year in Budapest, he finished first on rings and second in the all-round competition. Gushiken, realizing that these Olympic Games will be his first and probably last, shows formidable determination: "I didn't grow older for nothing. You'll find out at Los Angeles...
...absolutely azure sky set off by a single cloud looking as if it were shot up there from a pastry chefs icing gun, that kind of a day. And everywhere houses cling to the cliffsides like cockleburs. Jade plants, looking like so many butter beans on a stick, grow high and thick out here, form hedges, give privacy. (Back East, they live, if they live, in pots.) With air soft on the cheek, a boisterous green ocean in view, blazing red bougainvillea at the back, it is suddenly clear what has pulled so many souls to the City...
...just the past six months, Western Europe's foreign trade has expanded by more than 10%, led chiefly by exports to the U.S. Rising profits have helped spur outlays for new plant and equipment, which are expected to grow by 4.4% this year and 5.7% in 1985, according to European Community calculations. Six months ago, Britain led the recovery, followed by West Germany. But now other countries are joining the trend-The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Even France and Italy, which stayed in recession longest, are showing symptoms of growth...
Last year some 85 million of them were bought in the U.S. for about $900 million. This year (no sunnier than last) the market will grow by 25%, adding up to more than a billion dollars. Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest...