Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale Lecturer William Zinsser hit the nail squarely: "The whole notion of New Year's Day as the time of fresh starts and bold resolutions is false." In truth that time is autumn. Popular pleasure shows itself in those hastening steps and brightened smiles encountered as the air grows nippier. Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. Autumn is a friendlier time...
...exchange with which to import luxury goods. Senegal provided all the initial capital for Bud Antle's operation there, and removed villagers from land the company wanted for its plantations. The Brazilian government is clearing the Amazon rain forest to make way for American-owned companies who hope to grow beef, a luxury among foods, when it could give the land to the Brazilian landless as farms. The Shah of Iran spent millions of dollars on irrigation projects in the late '60s--systems that water the farms of multinationals, not Iranians. In case after case, the elites of the Third...
...monthly costs of owning a home. The costs?including mortgage payments, insurance, property taxes, heating, electricity and maintenance?rose 73.4% for older houses and 102.3% for new ones. The economists and other scholars who wrote the M.I.T.-Harvard study say that if house prices rise as fast, and incomes grow no more rapidly, over the next five years, "typical new homes in 1981 would sell for $78,000 ... the U.S. would become less and less a nation of homeowners...
...starting their own families constitute the prime home-buying group, and their numbers are rising sharply. Between 1970 and 1975, says the M.I.T.-Harvard report, the number of families headed by someone aged 25 to 34 increased almost 18%, to 10.9 million; by 1985 the total is expected to grow 30% more, to 14.1 million...
ONCE HE GETS to Western (after a very funny scene in which he is ripped off by a comely hitchhiker), the naive hero quickly finds out the truth about intercollegiate sports in the big time. He is given a cushy job watching grass grow in a stadium, slipped a lot of cash by an alumnus, introduced to the jock party scene complete with willing coeds and exposed to a maniacal head coach who has to have things his way. Things do not go well, alas. The coach doesn't like his style of play and waxes antagonistic, finally having...