Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon to consign AMC to the corporate scrap heap. Its rugged if hardly racy Jeep Cherokee line continues to grow in popularity. Moreover, the company has built a modern $340 million plant near Toronto that will turn out spiffy new models designed to change AMC's reputation as a producer of small, unexciting cars. Says AMC President Joseph Cappy: "We are finally poised for that turnaround we've been talking about for so long...
...industrial nations, yet a larger percentage of our citizenry is without financial protection. At the same time we are told there is a surplus of physicians and hospital beds, millions of Americans lack assess to health care. Just as we have people going hungry in a land that could grow more food, so we have people who get sick unable to enter a system that could help them. We are far, and getting further, from equity of access...
UNLESS WE act, our problems are likely to grow worse in the years ahead. America needs a universal health insurance system that removes economic barriers to care. But such a system must assure that we spend as a nation an "appropriate" amount, relative to other needs and wants, on health care. A national health insurance system--with a much larger administrative role for the individual states than earlier versions of NHI called for, a setup somewhat akin to the Canadian system--with expenditure limits would meet our needs...
WHEN EARLY '70s Black funk music met Abba, disco was born. Did it grow out of the joy that met Nixon's abdication? Was it a defense against Ford-induced boredom? Or was it somehow related to skateboarding and pop rocks? The first "disco" song is equally hard to pinpoint, but Pablo Cruise probably had something to do with...
Reliable details about the war are equally hard to get from the Nicaraguans. Managua's numbingly ponderous bureaucracy is a major and perhaps deliberate obstacle. Newsmen in the capital can grow old filling out endless forms for everything from an interview with a minor official to permission to travel to contested areas. And they can grow even older waiting for official approval. Many visitors give up after a week or two and head for home. "The government says war, war, war, but they won't let us cover it," says Jan Howard, a Managua-based reporter for CNN. "The biggest...