Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future seems as bright as the present. Wells Fargo Bank last month predicted that Orange would grow faster than California as a whole for the next 15 years. The county anticipates that it will develop 306,000 new jobs by 2000. "There is," says Venture Capitalist Charles Martin, "a great feeling of destiny here...
When the value of the dollar began falling early last year, American manufacturers were confident that their competitive powers would be rejuvenated. As the currency weakened, they reasoned, U.S. exports would become cheaper, while foreign imports would grow more expensive for American consumers. The trade deficit would begin its long-awaited decline. Economists cautioned that it would take time--twelve months, a year and a half at the most. But it would happen. This was no idle daydream, after all, but a proven tenet of modern economic policy...
...their products abroad. Says Charles Nevil, president of the Meridian Group, a Los Angeles-based export-management firm: "American firms have a basic indifference to exports. The hard dollar wasn't the cancer, and the soft dollar isn't the cure" for the deficit. If American exports are to grow, companies must become more adept at satisfying the needs and tastes of foreign consumers...
...talking about people who want to give birth and grow and love and laugh and die, bonded and sustained by the soil, which is the oldest way of life Americans know...
...program would require approval from the state legislature. That does not seem likely right now, but Rutledge hopes attitudes will become more enlightened. As he notes, it is a sobering fact that addicts find it easier to get drugs than clean needles. That means the AIDS threat will grow every time an addict shoots up with a dirty needle supplied by a friend or a drug dealer...