Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These efforts, plus small additions to existing facilities, will increase world capacity by less than 4% a year, while most experts agree that the market will grow at a rate of 5% for the foreseeable future. Only one firm, Alumax, a joint venture of AMAX, the large U.S. mining company. Japan's Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel Corp., is attempting to cash in on the shortage by investing in new plants in Oregon and South Carolina-a mighty $800 million gamble...
...citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee camps supported by the United Nations but actually governed by the P.L.O. Still, they endure. Says Palestinian Writer Raymonde Tawil: '"We are like grass. The more you cut it, the more it will grow...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY America. A time of prosperity, when the Horatio Alger myth is still alive, if somewhat decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep...
...church argues about the nature of Jesus, trying to decide whether he was God or man or both, our energies will be drained and our attention to the question of the nature of mankind will take a back seat. Hans Küng is helping the church to grow up. A blessing on his house...
There are other tests. Foreign nations once looked to the U.S. as the example of a powerful economy that could grow without serious inflation, a feat attained by few countries. The fact that double-digit inflation could hit the U.S. too, as it did in 1974-75, came as a shock abroad as well as at home. Now overseas observers see the U.S. bragging that its economy is growing at one of the fastest rates in the industrial world, yet whining fearfully that inflation is likely to result. The spectacle is compounded by the nation's refusal either...