Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the number of people in high-tech occupations will continue to grow, it will be dwarfed by jobs requiring little or no higher education. An additional 53,000 computer technicians will be needed by 1995, but business will be looking for 800,000 building custodians. Observed Stanford University Researchers Russell Rumberger and Henry Levin in a recent study: "Neither high-technology industries nor high-technology occupations will supply many new jobs during the next decade...
...steel and textiles grew up. The expansion of services and the shrinkage of some older occupations now are signs of the same natural growth and aging process. As long as American business can maintain its flexibility and innovative spirit, the number of Americans at work should continue to grow...
...results can be traumatic. Many men experience atrophy, or shrinking, of the testicles, falling sperm counts, tempo rary infertility and a lessening of sexual desire; some men grow breasts, while others may develop enlargement of the prostate gland, a painful condition not usually found in men under 50. Women who take too many steroids can develop male sexual characteristics. Some grow hair on their chests and faces and lose hair from their heads; many experience abnormal enlargement of the clitoris. Some cease to ovulate and menstruate, sometimes permanently...
...Connolly were out of the race, that would have allowed Shannon to grow," the delegate said "keeping him in keeps that Irish vote split three ways and keeps the conservative vote split two ways...
...growth for almost any other business but skimpy for an industry in which sales have been doubling and tripling annually. Says Harry Edelson, a technology analyst for the investment banking firm of First Boston: "The bloom is off the rose in the computer field. It is not going to grow as fast as everyone predicted...