Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry. In southern Zambia, farming has been disrupted by guerrilla warfare. In the Gwembe Valley, crops are rotting in local cooperative stores because nobody wants to collect them. Most of the preindependence white farmers have left Zambia, and agricultural output has dropped accordingly. Zambia's farmers no longer grow tobacco, once a flourishing crop, nor do they produce as much corn as the country needs...
Some companies, including Spain's state-owned Hispanoil, have refused to meet the extortionate price, but others may cave in soon if supplies grow much tighter. Late last month tiny Qatar had no difficulty auctioning off 3.2 million bbl. of crude for an excessive $34.30 per bbl. to Japanese importers as well as a Lebanese company, Gatoil International, for delivery to its Swiss subsidiary...
Sophisticated lobbying has collaborated with an exquisitely subdivided system to subvert larger goals. "Congress is fragmented into 300 committees and subcommittees now," complains Joseph Califano, the just purged HEW Secretary. The committees almost inevitably grow into guardians of their specialties. Huge staffs, not the elected Congressmen, preside over the drafting of bills, establishing directions and priorities that should be set by leaders, not bureaucrats and clerks...
...first "test-tube baby," as the tabloids proclaimed her, who in a revolutionary procedure was conceived outside the womb. The flaxen-haired girl not only was pretty but also had begun to talk at ten months. Said Truck Driver Father Jon Brown: "We think she's going to grow up into a very pretty blond and a very intelligent...
...restaurant, Manhattan, as its entrance." Baltimore, Md., death place of Edgar Allan Poe, is recognizable, with its gray asphalt, red brick and black iron gratings, as are the affluent hills of Berkeley. "passing through a 'wilderness' phase where it was fashionable to let meadow grass and herbs grow as they pleased, and the wild creatures come and go in the gardens and on the hillside roads...