Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limited basis in Europe since the 1970s. Oaks, palms and eucalyptus trees, as well as indoor plants like baby's breath, can be preserved for as long as eight years. After the process, the plants look, feel and even smell like they did before. Still, they neither grow nor blossom and have no need for water or light. The sleeping plants will sell for up to four times the cost of their living counterparts...
Drug abuse in the Soviet Union stems mainly from the use of koknar, or opium made from poppy seeds, and anashi, a substance similar to marijuana, made from the cannabis plant. Both crops grow wild in the country's Central Asian region. Poppies are also cultivated legally, mainly for use in medicines. The Soviet approach to treating abusers of such drugs tends to be punitive. Under a new law, youthful offenders may be incarcerated for up to two years in a police-run "preventive educational treatment center." The job of these institutions, according to a recent article in the Soviet...
Gardner replies that the state can solve both the employment and infant-care problems by putting welfare mothers to work in day-care centers, which are expected to grow through state subsidies from an $8 million-a-year business to $116 million a year. FIP, he says, "won't cost more than the current welfare program, and it won't save money either. But it will save lives and self- esteem, careers and families...
Statistics on the subject are few and inexact, but Keane estimates that 500 children have been born to surrogate parents since then, 65 of them last year. About a dozen surrogate centers are in operation around the country. The number is small but is likely to grow at a time when as many as 15% of married couples in the U.S. meet the medical definition of infertile...
...economy's weakest moments came during the year's second quarter, when fears began to grow that the recovery might have run out of momentum. Growth virtually stagnated from April through June, expanding a measly .6%. A primary cause was trouble in America's farm and oil-producing states, whose woes temporarily dragged down the whole U.S. economy. But the downturn jitters proved unwarranted; the economy bounced back with a 2.8% expansion in the third quarter and was expected to perform at about that level during the October-December period...