Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone else trying to write." However, the two of them, each the parent of three children, did achieve instant rapport on the awfulness of adolescence. "She gave me more hope than she offers her readers," Skow says. "She reassured me that all one's children do eventually grow up and leave home...
...Social Democratic premier of the state of North-Rhine Westphalia: "Our job is to lure our voters back from the Greens and to achieve an absolute majority of our own." If that effort means taking the same position as the Greens on many issues, West German politics will grow even more polarized. Curiously, one of the few people who did not take the environmentalists' success too seriously was Petra Kelly, the U.S.-educated activist who helped found the party. "It was hardly a real gain," she told TIME Correspondent Gary Lee. "In a federal election people would not have...
...American banks that lent them much of the money has grown sharply. A 2% jump in interest rates has hit Latin countries with a potential increase of $5 billion in annual interest payments. Meanwhile, big-city banks in the U.S. have taken a beating on Wall Street as investors grow more worried about whether the Latin debts will ever be repaid. Says Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust: "The world has become much more accident prone. I believe a reasonable solution can still be found, but the stock market is not giving the banks much time...
REPRESENTATION will surely grow this November, as voter registration drives aimed at Hispanics take effect. But the numbers will mean little if leaders do not make themselves heard at this summer's conventions. In addition to token mention in keynote addresses, issues of particular interest to Hispanics--like immigration, education, social programs, and civil rights must receive attention by the Democratic nominee and in the platforms of both parties...
Bicyclists have long been a part of the Cambridge street scene, but as their numbers continue to grow, and the hazards they engender increase, the city must make a commitment to treating them no differently than the drivers they curse so spitefully. Although it is common knowledge that bicycles are subject to all the same traffic laws that care are: these rules are so rarely enforced that no one pays them any heed. Bikes rolling along the wrong side of the avenue, against the flow of traffic on a one-way street or through stoplights are common sights...