Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prime Minister Den Uyl has ordered an investigation of the Peron affair, but regardless of how it comes out, the accusations are another blow to Bernhard's shaky public image. Presumably, public pressure will grow more intense for his wife, Queen Juliana, to remove the prince from the limelight. To do that, she might have to abdicate...
Crucial Test. Even as the weak grow weaker, the strong currencies become yet stronger (see chart). The value of the Swiss franc, the world's solidest currency, has increased 5% since last September, while the West German mark has risen 3%. The dollar, which had been suffering only two years ago, now has won new respect abroad as Europeans become increasingly impressed with the vigor of the U.S. economic recovery...
Gonzalez, still a freshman, is prepared to grow farther from her own culture, and views the prospect with equanimity. "It's probably a worthwhile trade off," she says. "After all, I came here to get a different perspective on my own country...
Usually children grow up abroad because their parents are there for job reasons. And the parents' occupations and attitudes have a lot to do with determining how large a does of the country's culture they receive. In their conversation, Harvard students who have lived abroad referred to each other by their parents' occupations; a "foreign service kid" was distinct from an "oil kid" or from a "military kid." But no matter where they went or how they got there, most expressed a more positive view of the American life abroad then at home...
None of this would have been nearly as necessary 15 or 20 years ago. "Harvard-Radcliffe has not always been that high on having foreign students," Malin recalls. Change didn't really come until the early sixties, when the applicant pool began to grow steadily. By 1969, growth had leveled off and the last seven years have seen little variation in the numbers of foreign students flocking to Cambridge...