Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Bedford, N.Y., woman was a victim of an increasingly common scam: telephone credit card fraud. Last week such cases seemed to grow larger and more outlandish by the day. Philip Rubin, 71, of Boca Raton, Fla., received a statement demanding $176,983. Said he: "I was more than a little surprised." Even that was topped by a bill presented to the Michigan Association of Governmental Employees for calls charged to its new, but not yet distributed, credit cards. It came...
...specific goal exists for the drive, but Rupp says he would like to see the endowment grow to $60 million. "If our endowment were now $60 million instead of $40 million, we would be in healthy shape," says the dean...
...while the school continues to grow in many directions, the central obstacle to a rosy future remains the shortage of money. Rupp makes no bones about the school's rough times. "I think there's a case to be made that we are the poorest school at Harvard. I think that between the Design School, the Graduate School of Education and the Divinity School, you could argue about which is the worst have-not." The challenge to the school, Rupp adds, is to attract the donations and keep down expenses, to insure that the school can continue to grow...
...verbatim account of the debate printed in The New York Times. There we find that Mondale did not attack Hart for supporting entrepreneurship programs, but for claiming that such programs were a "new idea" free from the influence of "a handful of constituency groups.... that cannot make this economy grow again." Mondale then went...
...nuzzle. We go to the garage and climb the stairs to the second story. It is a picture gallery. The walls and ceilings are papered with hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the Jackson family. It is like a cave whose walls map out history. The Jacksons grow up on these walls. A corner of the room is filled with boxes of the get-well cards and gifts Michael received after his hair caught on fire...