Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diseases. Since few parents are at ease discussing the subject with their sons and daughters, schools face little opposition when they try to add sexual education to their curricu lum. And the students themselves insist that they want the instruction. "I doubt that I will use algebra when I grow up, but I'll probably be married," says a Berkeley, Calif., high school senior...
...impact of genetic mutations caused by radiation is not fully understood. To learn more about these effects, Cornell University Scientists Richard Holsten, Michiyasu Sugii and Frederick Steward conducted an experiment of elegant simplicity. They irradiated single carrot cells in a growth-stimulating broth of coconut milk, planning to grow them into complete plants. Thus any mutations that showed up on the complete plan could be traced back with assurance to radiation-caused changes in the chromosomes of a single microscopic cell...
...jumped more than 400 points since mid-1962 and last week closed at an alltime high of 966. Businessmen plan in 1966 to increase capital spending 15% ; automakers and steelmakers expect to top this year's production records. Ackley and his colleagues anticipate that the gross national product will grow another 5% in real terms during 1966, to $715 billion?or perhaps more...
...spend and corporations $3 billion more to invest. In addition, they put through a long-overdue reduction in excise taxes, slicing $1.5 billion this year and another $1.5 billion in the year beginning Jan. 1. In an application of the Keynesian argument that an economy is likely to grow best when the government pumps in more money than it takes out, they boosted total federal spending to a record high of $121 billion and ran a deficit of more than $5 billion. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board kept money easier and cheaper than it is in any other major nation...
...ever begged him to grow up, and he never did. He traveled with a child's restless, wide-eyed curiosity. "Oh what a noble achievement!" he said, riding his first train. "We fly like the clouds in a storm." He met Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Lamartine, Kierkegaard, Ibsen. "He looks like a large child, a sort of half-angel," said the Irish poet William Allingham. He loved as a child loves: marriage and children were grown-up affairs and not for him. His fears were those of a child: of falling ill, taking the wrong medicine, putting letters...