Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watch the family grow up," he says. "You can see kids go from three...
...especially concerned about the impact of a financial meltdown in South Korea, one of Japan's fiercest regional competitors. Japan may be tempted to let the yen fall in value if the same thing happens to the South Korean currency. That could cause the U.S. trade deficit to grow $60 billion to $110 billion by early 1999, experts...
...dissertations on how it felt to turn 40. Now they are 50, and it's as if they were the first generation ever to reach that milestone. Will the most self-centered, self-absorbed, self-important and just plain selfish generation in history ever stop whining and just grow up? THOMAS J. BROWNE Bridgewater...
Yossarian himself is rarely given the opportunity to participate in the deft comic timing that is going on all around him, which only adds more humor to his plight. As Yossarian, Leach remains stoic and earnest, but inevitably boring compared to his neurotic comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...
Adults in general merit some discredit, for always asking us what we wanted to be when we grow up--a terrible question, and if our entire generation would vow never to ask this question to anyone under 20 once we grow up, a new generation might someday be capable of self-satisfaction again. But the truth is that no one is really responsible for our obsession with "success"--tangible success, that is, the kind that comes with either a big public name or a large salary--other than ourselves...