Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Epps' race was a factor in the University's search for a dean of the College two years ago has not satisfied those who want the affair investigated. And there can be little question that, in the absence of an inquiry, concern about the appointment is likely to grow more rapidly than knowledge of what actually happened once an account of the appointment is published this summer...
...reviews -- when an audience's first and lasting response to his appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
...stock market's performance. That measure provoked the mutual-fund industry to file a lawsuit alleging violation of Glass-Steagall. In short, the battle between investment bankers and their commercial rivals will continue to intensify, and the pressure on the beleaguered U.S. banking system will continue to grow...
...behind the trend? Says Ira Quint, president of Lane Bryant: "There are two immutable forces that always work for us. One is called aging, and the other is gravity." In fact, nearly half of all women in the U.S. wear size 14 or larger. The proportion may well grow: though more Americans may be eating a healthier diet than they once did, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has calculated that in 1985 Americans were consuming 7% more food per capita than they were ten years earlier. Meanwhile, the wave of women entering managerial and professional ranks has greatly increased...
Such tales are becoming abundantly familiar as American parents are forced to make room for their adult children. "There is a naive notion that children grow up and leave home when they're 18, and the truth is far from that," says Sociologist Larry Bumpass of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 59% of men and 47% of women between 18 and 24 depend on their parents for housing, some living in college dorms but most at home. In 1970 the figures were 54% and 41%. Also...