Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every pregnant woman knows when the baby swivels, or the depression brought on by the puffiness in her face, or any of the temperamental swings that arc throughout the pregnancy. She does not take her dreams or reveries into account, her imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments she was paid a fee, yet her reactions not only lie outside the business deal but are shadowed by that...
Cystic fibrosis, cleft palate, muscular dystrophy, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's chorea. The list of disorders that have been traced to a specific gene or gene region seems to grow on a weekly basis. The latest in this gene- of-the-week series: the discovery of a region on the X chromosome that is linked to manic depression, a mental disorder that affects as many as 2 million Americans. The finding, published in Nature by an American and Israeli research team, was based on studies of five families in Jerusalem. It marks the second time in three weeks that...
...everyone sings the blues. Former Governor Walter Hickel, who has seen the occupancy rate in his 600-room Captain Cook Hotel drop 7 points, to 62%, in the past twelve months, says resolutely, "We have to be enthusiastic." Indeed, the state's savings account, the Permanent Fund, continues to grow and now tops $8.1 billion. That is a healthy reserve, even if the principal cannot be tapped to help solve the current crisis. Harold Heinze, the president of Arco Alaska, looks at the modest rebound in the world price of oil and says, "It feels good to have a mild...
...freshman year is in so many ways set apart, we shouldn't underestimate what contact and communication with upperclass students, who have found their own niches, can do to help freshmen explore and situate themselves here. So while we sympathize with Masters' frustration, we believe that the program can grow and improve by taking it seriously--and we do not think her frustration constitutes sufficient ground to condemn a Yard full of active and committed prefects or the program which places them there. Member, Prefect Steering Committe
...which he defines rather woodenly as nonofficial information circulating within a social group, are not just idle tales. Long-lived rumors of snakes or spiders coming out of clumps of bananas or children's teddy bears, he believes, probably have a strong xenophobic component -- fear of Africa, where bananas grow, or Asia, where stuffed animals are made...