Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sums up an Afghan agent: "Soviet at tempts to cut the pipeline have created some frustration and disappointment. But the struggle inside Afghanistan continues to survive and, in some important ways, the pipeline continues to grow...
...when he was barely one year out of acting school, he got a chance to audition for the part of his boyhood hero. His punk haircut with "a little spike" was a problem, he recalls, but he promised Film Maker Dino De Laurentiis he would let his hair grow. And so what the actor calls his "Kyle-Paul meld" began in earnest. He read Dune five or six times before getting the part and has read it five or six times since. With the $40 million space saga now in the can, MacLachlan, 25, is wondering what effect...
Traditional theories of development like that of Lawrence Kohlberg, professor of Education and Social Psychology, show a child progressing from a concern with the context of the situation and maintaining relationships to higher stages where decisions grow out of a principled devotion to justice and individual rights...
...certainly I did not. Both as a middle-aged alumnus and as a dean. I have come to the conclusion that college is something which happens to us, where we strive to do the best we can with whatever limitations we have; and that we continue to change and grow in each decade which follows college...
Leppmann, a literary historian and critic, is particularly adept at placing Rilke in his constricting time (circa 1900) and suffocating place (Habsburg Vienna). Given these obstacles, plus the additional one of a neurotic mama, no other modern poet grew more-or had further to grow. His early poems were distinguished principally for their alliteration and easy sentimentality, and his early manhood remarkable mainly for its seductions...