Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loans to Mexico's impoverished farmers-a field that Mexico's 114 other commercial banks are usually reluctant to plow. "Agriculture credit is a good operation if you study the farmer," says Managing Director Fernando Gonzalez. He insists that his bankers not only advise farmers what to grow, but also what seed and fertilizer to use. Director Gonzalez is known affectionately in banking circles as "un viejo lobo banquero"-an old banking wolf -but he is one wolf that Mexico's farmers are glad to see at the door...
...late Learned Hand, the greatest U.S. judge who never sat on he Supreme Court. "If we are to keep our democracy," he said, "there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." Knowledgeable lawyers would add that such rationing has a dangerous practical effect: the victims grow increasingly disrespectful of the police and the courts. But the new drive for equal justice also saddles the nation's 200,000 private-practice lawyers with the duty of fully defending more than 150,000 indigents a year...
Frozen Foods & Baby Sitters. Economists discern significant turns in the way the 92? goes out. Naturally, consumers still think first of food, clothing and shelter, but the manner in which they think of them has changed. As they grow more affluent, Americans are buying steadily bigger and better homes. They eat 117 Ibs. less food a year than their fathers, but are spending $232 a year more for it. This is not so much because prices have risen but because consumers nowadays show a weight-conscious preference for green vegetables over starchy potatoes and a gour met's delight...
...only been on the market one year. Even Elsie the Cow is out to milk the market. Borden has just put on the shelves its first soft drink-a milk-laced beverage called Moola-Koola. One reason the soft-drink people are convinced that their boom can only grow is that the biggest group of soft-drinkers are on the verge of a population explosion: the next ten years will see an influx of 6,000,000 teen-agers into the market...
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