Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part, the Volcker faction has gone along with the Reaganites' contention that the economy needs some juice. "There is a broad consensus on monetary policy on the board right now," says Johnson. For the past three months the governors have let the basic money supply grow at a 16% annual rate -- much faster than the 3%-to-8% target range that the Fed originally set for this year. That accommodating policy has allowed the growth rate in the gross national product to bounce up from .6% in the second quarter to 2.4% in the July-September period...
...Everyone loves mummies and dinosaurs when they're little, but most people grow out of it. I never did," laughs the 30-year-old grad student. While his thoughts about archaeology have changed in the past 15 years, his enthusiasm for the field has not waned. "We're getting, in many ways, beyond ourselves technologically. We need fields like archaeology and history that have some semblance of retrospect, some sense of perspective. I really do believe that we can learn from our mistakes...
...might need $9 million to play." He adds, "If you're not computer sophisticated, you're behind the eight ball. As a practical matter, small investors can't compete in program trading." Unless, of course, they become institutional investors themselves through mutual funds, which seem likely to continue to grow...
Totalitarianism is internal colonialism, the occupying power being the party. But, like all colonialisms, it cannot be perfect. The sun never sets on the Kremlin's empire, but things do grow in the shade: an autonomous church in Poland, small free enterprise in Hungary, even an oft-repressed "jazz section" of the musicians union in Czechoslovakia. Of course, some regimes are more total than others. For every Hungary there is a Rumania, where typewriters must be registered with the police. For every Poland, a North Korea, where the leader's cult of personality makes Stalin look retiring...
Complicating matters from a public health standpoint is the ominious fact that this large group of healthy carriers probably will remain infectious for life, therefore increasing the probability that the number of infected individuals will continue to grow...