Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strong also argues that kids are increasingly vulnerable and lost in today's world. They must grow up, "without the kind of family and institutional support that existed in the past...". This is the same excuse which has been used to account for everything from punk rock to eating disorders, and here Strong puts it to use again. But Strong differentiates between the piercing and tattooing culture which is becoming more prevalent and the kind of pathological body mutilation that her subjects suffer from. She says that the former is becoming more popular but stops short of saying that...
...media attention circulating around Up makes this a make or break album for the band as it enters the next millennium. Some argue that R.E.M.'s power has continued to grow, leading to the group's apparent autonomy from the shifty nature of the music industry. Still, executives at Warner Bros. had to worry just a little after the low sales of New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 1996, especially after the band was re-signed to a lucrative contract a few years...
...Here, because the Republicans and Democratshave merged together so much, it becomesdifficult. [The voters] are just getting lipservice, so...the Libertarian party has a lot offertile ground to grow here...
Should Harvard--an institution founded on the principle that one can only serve one's country after having "Enter[ed] to Grow in Wisdom"--honor Margaret Thatcher? It is said in the Bible that he who causes discord in his own house shall inherit the wind. The void of vision in Britain now, backed by legions of unimpressive Tory and Labor back-benchers unable to deal with the mess she has made, is, in the end, Thatcher's only legacy to the British people...
...onlie begetter of this oceanic marvel lives a life of ritualized civility in the South of France. Tea at four (or "I'm afraid I grow fractious"), whiskey at six. An interview remains politely impersonal. He has sailed; he studied medicine; he sees great value in the rigorous, hierarchical politeness of the Royal Navy in Aubrey's time. But he admits that he has forgotten some details of his novels 10 or 15 books ago and shares some uncertainties about those to come. Not long ago he was at work on Chapter 3 of the untitled 20th novel...