Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual." Defining the limits has always been at the heart of our political argument, though the debate is often overshadowed by more immediate issues. But because the world is calm and no great national crisis has so far intruded into or focused the campaign, there has been time to grow a bit more philosophical than usual...
...went up, thus improving profit margins. That advantage will diminish in the months ahead as the economy picks up momentum and industry comes closer to using its full capacity. Albert Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a business research group, predicts that profits in the last half will grow by slightly more than 20% on a year-over-year basis. For all of 1976, however, most experts agree that earnings should be 25% to 30% higher than...
...that grow like dark underfur...
...nominated to a seven-year term on the Federal Communications Commission. The President replaced her with David Gergen, 34, a former Nixon speechwriter and highly regarded special counsel to Ford, and made it clear that the Office of Communications would wield considerably more power; it is expected to grow from half a dozen professional staffers to as many...
Government help has two aspects. First, import controls effectively bar processors from buying peanuts from such other countries as India and Brazil. More important, farmers can legally grow peanuts only on Government-set acreage allotments-and any peanuts that processors do not want to buy can, in effect, be sold to the Government at artificially high prices. This year's support price, scheduled to be announced next month, is expected to go as high as $415 a ton, v. a world price of $250. Each year the Government buys up huge amounts of peanuts; last year it purchased about...