Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bottom of the official pole whose summit is the Academy of Arts, that august body of 77 academicians and 99 alternate members. Among them are the state propagandists, whose mission it is to turn out the unending stream of statues of Lenin (with benign and resolute features that grow more Asiatic the further east they go) for public places from Minsk to Irkutsk. Many an unofficial artist finds himself in the predicament of Nikolai Filatov, whose large canvases -- a fervent compost of '50s-style abstract expressionism and broken-up cubofuturist planes -- are beginning to sell in the West...
...means that, even under glasnost, opposition to perestroika gets limited voice. Yet by now it is clear that unless Gorbachev can inspire widespread public support for the reform process -- no sure thing -- his attempt to shake down the old trees will be truncated before it has a chance to grow...
Unless Soviet youth grow up with computers, the country will be at an increasing disadvantage in the global technological race. The U.S.S.R. must rapidly automate and computerize its industry if it is to increase productivity and manufacture goods that can compete in the world market. And without exportable products, the Soviet economy will never earn the hard currency it needs to finance modernization and growth...
...Harvard] should be passive and let events take their course, it will implicitly choose a certain type of environment--one, perhaps, in which all Cambridge slowly becomes like Harvard and MIT, until we find that we are no longer an urban university, but one which has allowed there to grow up around itself a kind of inner-city suburb with a single kind of life style, carried on by professors, students, psychiatrists, and the executives of electronics and consulting firms," the Wilson report read...
...plan, Healy warns that although the city is in "strong shape fiscally" now, it may face severe restraints soon, as well as cuts in programs and services. "The boom years of the 1980s have come to an end, and while our economy remains strong, it will not grow at the rate of recent years," Healy wrote...