Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Franklin Roosevelt's WPA. There is a lingering suspicion that Democratic voters are just flirting with Simon before they pledge their troth to a more conventionally marriageable candidate. As a top strategist to a Democratic rival puts it, "There is a distinct limit to how much his support can grow...
...school needs to expand because of large increases in the number of applicants, including an 8 percent jump this fall. Its attempts to grow in its current location, Boston's Back Bay area, have run into prohibitive costs...
...since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money can do; and when such essential, familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder that people may grow wild, frantic, even (as in the shooting in a stockbrokers' office in Miami last week) murderous...
...with Soviet TV shows like Good Evening, Moscow and Dialogue, which mix news of perestroika with round-table discussions. A recent broadcast pitted squirming agricultural officials against incensed consumers, who waved bags of tasteless, undersized green apples at the camera and demanded to know why anyone even bothered to - grow them. Says a Chinese economist: "In his policy of glasnost and political restructuring, Gorbachev has posed a challenge to the Chinese. Our reforms began at the grass roots. In the Soviet Union, change is coming down from...
...economy perked along nicely and the stock market bounded upward, it was easy for Americans to feel prosperous, whether they actually owned any stocks or not. Families were willing to take on mortgages to buy new homes, in part because they believed the economy would continue to grow and the value of the home would appreciate. Those who did own stocks enjoyed a dramatic increase in their paper wealth and felt free to spend more on new clothes, vacations, cars and theater tickets. That fueled the economic growth that fostered the widespread sense of well-being...