Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power wanting to be as good as it is great. The candidate who knows that, and who is willing to take the country problem by problem, perhaps to discover a vision by deduction, will not bring down the house with a speech this year. But he could grow up to be President...
With ridership on commuter rail lines having increased 49 percent between 1983 and last fall, the MBTA's rail fleet is scheduled to grow to 248 cars by July, a 48.5 percent increase since last month...
...foreign buyers. U.S. exports were an estimated $251 billion last year, up nearly 15% from 1985, and most economists expect the rise to continue. Jason Benderley, a senior economist at the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, predicts that if the dollar stays at its current level, overseas shipments could grow by as much as 15% a year through 1991. If imports level off or decline, the trade deficit could finally start to shrink steadily...
...climb from the coast through Ngoan Muc Pass brings travelers to a plateau strewn magnificently with poinsettia trees the size of small maples, all in bloom. A thousand varieties of orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging...
Lampoon Narthex Paul R. Simms '88 said 'poonie lore has it that Vellucci "hoped the roots of the tree would grow and split the Castle in half...