Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anybody, is the President's man. His friends are displaying a new balkiness, his enemies a new boldness. While mounting opposition to a President is predictable, Carter is especially dependent on a dexterous balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter is bound to discover, as many have before him, that the nation's most powerful job can also be the loneliest...
...says Asbestos Mineworker Henry O'Hara, who emigrated from Ireland 31 years ago at the age of seven, "Smith's done a damn good job for twelve years. I don't see why he shouldn't have another twelve-long enough for my kids to grow up." O'Hara approves of Smith's concept of "power sharing" between whites and moderate blacks. But who would be in the driver's seat? "Those with brains, of course." He winks...
...increase at all for at least the next twelve months from its present lackluster 2.75% a year, hardly sufficient to create jobs for the more than 7 million Europeans currently out of work. Unemployment, which has stood at record postwar levels in some countries since 1974, is expected to grow still higher in the next ten months, from 4.75% to 5.25% of the total European work force. This is still much less than in America, but unemployment has always been psychologically much more shocking in Europe than...
...plant, which measures a foot in height, grows wild in a large area reaching eastward from the Ozarks and is cultivated commercially. The mature root, usually four inches long, weighs less than an ounce. Diggers send the roots to a handful of dealers, like Willard Magee in Eolia, Mo.; he will mail back a check based on wholesale prices (currently $95 to $110 per lb. for wild and $45 to $50 for cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent...
Some targets fight, but $100 million mergers grow...