Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quest for ways to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, the Reagan Administration has repeatedly urged other countries to grow faster and absorb more American imports. One of the prime targets of the jawboning has been Western Europe, which last year ran up a $26.4 billion trade surplus with the U.S. But if the White House is counting on much help from the Europeans this year, it is likely to be disappointed. That was the consensus of TIME's European Board of Economists, which met in London for its semiannual review of Europe's outlook. Average growth in the gross national...
However, the professor may say, "It is with unparalleled earnestness that I offer the following results of an inordinate multitude of painstaking hours of tireless scrutiny, for even as one scrutinizes so does one grow tired--hence my previous comment--if you will reminisce--that ingeniously juxtaposed the two words 'tired' and 'scrutiny'. I am, of course getting at the indisputable biblical overtones, or more precisely, if I might be so bold, the form of Christ, as represented in the character, or personae, if I may, of the main character, or personae, if I may, in the plan. Thank...
Benning has been in an ideal position to watch Taylor's improvement over the years. From the other side of the blue line, he's seen Taylor grow more confident and more versatile as a defenseman. Taylor has not only become an excellent defensive player, but he now poses a serious offensive threat...
...horrendous U.S. trade deficit, however, Commerce Department officials are openly sympathetic to the study's criticism. Says Paul Freedenberg, an assistant Commerce Secretary: "We can cut the list. We can be more responsive." The debate is likely to become sharper as concern over the trade balance continues to grow in the months ahead...
...been astonishing. At White House meetings, he stays mostly silent. One man who has attended hundreds of small sessions with Bush says he has no idea what the Vice President really thinks. When the aides who prepare him for his weekly one-on-one luncheon with the President grow curious about the fate of their ideas and ask about Reagan's reactions, the Vice President clams up. He is determined that no one discern differences between himself and the President...