Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McGill usually has an edge over Harvard in the annual match-up, mainly because its players are more experienced. Canadians grow up playing rugby the same way Americans grow up playing football. So while the majority of American rugby players learn the sport on college campuses, Canadian players have been playing since childhood...
...were accurately reporting the changes in her own life, she would admit that she no longer has to count the crumbs in cracker-box suburbia. If state-fair-quality dust balls grow anywhere in her snazzy Arizona rancho, it is in the box with those twelve honorary doctorates. Maybe she could do a column on rising to accept her appointment to the President's Advisory Committee for Women, only to feel the elastic turn coward and head south in her . . . nah. Bombeck knows what she is doing, and she honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers...
...contras as a fighting force are the creation of this United States foreign policy. Peace in the region can only come if all parties recognize the illegitimacy of these rebels and allow the Nicaraguan government to grow and work with its bordering nations in peace...
...this damaging division does not necessarily grow out of intellectual debate. Friedenthal said that Stanford has a substantial number of professors sympathetic to the tenets of CLS--considered to be the second largest concentration of crits after Harvard--without the debate spilling over into the tenure process...
...Colino decide to rip off his employer? A former Comsat associate describes Colino as "ambitious and manipulative" and bitter at not advancing more rapidly earlier in his career. An associate in Intelsat speculates that Colino thought he would make the organization "grow so fast they wouldn't miss the money." But they did, and a promising career self-destructed...