Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heiden, the greatest speed skater in history?and an American?has flashed through without leaving a trace. Dianne Holum, the coach of the 18-member speed-skating team, a four-time Olympic medalist herself, laments, "You would hope that after Eric's success the sport would grow. The disappointment is the realization now that it will never happen." The Olympic speed-skating team is in some disarray, quarreling over coaching methods. Several of the male skaters continue to follow defrocked Coach Bob Corby, who offended some of the women by his concern for their weight. Furnished...
...most successful players in the new-issue market is Arthur Rock, 57. During the past quarter of a century, he has compiled an extraordinary record of picking new companies and helping them grow into profitable giants (see box). In addition, he has become the cornerstone of the Silicon Valley investment community, where many of America's new industries are now taking shape. By investing money in dozens of companies, Rock has built a personal fortune of at least $200 million...
William Hambrecht: Green Thumb. Hambrecht feels a great sense of accomplishment when he picks a bunch of ripe, juicy Zinfandel grapes from his 140-acre vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif., or clips a dazzling orchid in his San Francisco greenhouse. "I like to grow things," he says...
...might well have made his strongest case for Steinbeck as a rambling raconteur, or as a superb short-story writer. 77?^ Red Pony and The Leader of the People live on as classics for the loving precision with which they portray a young boy's painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious and the trivial. It was his bad luck that he happened...
...holiday shopping season was the best in nearly a decade. Revenues of major stores were more than 10% higher than last year. Sears' sales improved 35%, while Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson recorded a 25% gain. Predicted Dayton Hudson Chairman William Andres: "Consumer confidence will continue to grow, and we'll continue to see good retail sales...