Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PERHAPS I'm blaming OCS for my own unwillingness to grow up and take the initiative, including organizing for this summer. It's so far away, isn't it? Tell me it is, because there are more than 80 pages of summer programs and addresses laying on my bedroom floor...
...agriculture commissioner. Outside Texas, Hightower is best known for regaling the Democratic National Convention last year with his zingers about George Bush, who he said "was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple." Hightower provoked national attention again early this year when he urged cattlemen to grow hormone-free cattle in response to the European Community's ban on U.S. beef...
...prominent leaders are ready to write off Shamir as hopeless. There is also understandable skepticism about the genuineness of Arafat's conversion to moderation. Despite the anguish over Israel's harsh response to the intifadeh, donations to the United Jewish Appeal and the purchase of Israel bonds continue to grow...
...Reagan Administration stated it had no objections to water marketing (in a memo written by an Assistant Secretary now handling water- project bonds at Drexel Burnham Lambert). But other voices may object to the idea that farmers who receive subsidized water for crops, and further subsidies not to grow those crops, should profit handsomely on the sale of the subsidized water. Willey argues that the profits will be going to produce new public benefits: irrigation systems that use less water and produce less pollution. A Mono County businessman suggests that the sale of water rights ought to be regulated...
...like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country wisdom, "but I also learned how to let her words blow through...