Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow fades, they believe, the chances will grow for a leftist-coalition victory at the polls in 1978. Thus Revel's broadside, reviving all the old French fears about the true face of Communism, provoked immediate reaction from not only Communists but French Socialists as well...
...terms of assets, elbowing past its traditional rival Chase. There are persistent rumors that some Chase directors are unhappy and would not be sorry to see Chairman Rockefeller leave-though there is no indication that he will. Wriston's reputation, in contrast, continues to grow even among bankers who are made nervous by his expansion-mindedness...
...Utah, she says, she found no appealing role model. "My mother expects me to grow up and be the perfect housewife and mother," Bybee snaps. "It is not what I want to do." An English major and the only Mormon at Radcliffe this year, Bybee hopes to go on to graduate school, but she is vague about which one, first she mentions law school, and then she says she's also thinking about graduate or business school. "I'll decide on whims and on who lets me in," she finally admits, muttering under her breath, "Kalamazoo pre-dental school...
...uniform in your own locker room and get in the bus and go somewhere and play and drive back all sweaty." When you play, "sometimes you feel like a caged animal, people throwing peanuts at you." But who's complaining? Brayton's never one to let a few gripes grow to defiance...
...economies of scale. Uncharitable critics point out that the USPS has hardly shown that its huge size offers great financial advantages. In any case, if it proves true that large concerns can deliver mail cheaper than small ones, then, as in any other such case, large firms will grow up and drive out their smaller, less efficient competitors. Still another argument is that private companies will refuse to deliber to remote rural areas, due to excessive cost. In this case, as in any other, private companies will provide service if the patrons are willing to pay for it, though...