Word: grown
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...from his original base in Virginia, he says, was necessitated by a need to find "a good place near an airport," since his Convocation of Anglicans in North America, originally a handful of Virginia Episcopal congregations that embraced the authority of Nigeria's ultraconservative Archbishop Peter Akinola has now grown to 65 congregations spread country-wide...
...officials and food experts say there's a more fundamental reason why prices are rising: a world grown accustomed to plenty is increasingly unable to produce enough food to sustain itself. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told the world's leaders in Rome this week that farmers would need to grow 50% more crops by 2030 in order to avert a massive global shortage of food. "There is nothing more degrading than hunger, especially when it is man-made," Ban said...
...leave the bottom of the pyramid to development groups and regional banks. That's what Ecobank is doing in Africa. The Togo-based company, with operations in 22 countries, has for years acted as a banker to microfinance groups, taking deposits and writing loans. Over that time, Ecobank has grown hip to the business model and last year launched a microfinance institution of its own, in Nigeria and then in Ghana. Senegal and Cameroon are next. "This empowers the bottom of the African market," says Ecobank microfinance head Rotimi Nihinlola, "and is a good opportunity to grow our business...
Your friendships will get tangled like tagliatelle, and it will be a challenge to keep straight the crushes, the feuds, the screen names. Yet as you cope with these grown-up entanglements, remember to be nice to little kids. You were little yourself once. And to your parents. You are about to go through a phase in which we say only annoying, irrelevant and inconvenient things. By the time you are ready to graduate from high school, you may find our company bearable again. In the meantime, our job is to keep you safe, let you trip occasionally, shut down...
...selling traditional food instead of bite-size imports like chicken nuggets, Teremok has grown into Russia's fourth largest fast-food chain. Only McDonald's, Rostik's-KFC (a joint venture with Kentucky Fried Chicken) and the pizza chain Sbarro are larger. Teremok anticipates $110 million in revenue this year, up from $63 million last year, and the company may soon expand into the U.S. and Western Europe. Mikhail Goncharov, 37, Teremok's founder, has big plans for the humble pancake. "We think blini could be for Russia what pizza is for the Italians," he says...