Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual security devices on the market: rows of P.T. bushes used as fences. Amid the innocuous-looking white flowers and glossy green leaves are 4-in. razor-sharp thorns that make the bushes nearly impossible to climb over and are strong enough to stop a speeding jeep. P.T. plants grow naturally in the hills of East Tennessee, sometimes reaching a height of 20 ft., and have long been used by local farmers to protect livestock. Now Barrier Concepts, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., firm, is selling the bushes to such security-minded customers as the CIA, the Secret Service...
...that protect depositors. If that happens, taxpayers will have to come to the rescue. Federal regulators are confident they can clean up the mess before it overwhelms the financial system, but if the U.S. falls into a recession in the next year or two, the problems in banking will grow much worse...
...foreign policy with the Vice President because I think he's extremely vulnerable in many ways: U.S.-Soviet relations, his response to issues like Iran-contra, Third World issues and the whole question of national security. Everybody knows that the defense budget in real terms isn't going to grow, no matter who the next President is. There's no way that we can build all these weapons systems and at the same time maintain a strong conventional capability. It's impossible...
Party platforms, cooked in the high temperature of factional passions, quickly , grow cold as the real campaign begins. Voters would rather listen to live candidates than read moribund cliches. But last week, as Republicans finished drafting their 1988 document in New Orleans, G.O.P. leaders thought they had forged a workable weapon to use against the Democrats: the Heft Issue...
Masson readily admits that others have had this idea before him. In the early 1930s Sandor Ferenczi, a disciple of Freud's and an influential psychoanalyst, confessed his growing doubts about his profession to his diary, which has not yet been published in English. Masson quotes generously from this document, showing a poignant portrait of a man torn between increasingly rigid doctrine and what he saw with his senses: "We greet the patient in a friendly manner, make sure the transference will take, and while the patient lies there in misery, we sit comfortably in our armchair, quietly smoking...