Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...emerging ethanol industry was both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientists and their teams are working feverishly to create biofuels from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. The science is still young. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching a primitive plane at Kitty Hawk. But we will succeed. Mark Beyer, Detroit...
What should you do? Rebalance, for starters. Any exposure you have to gold, oil and other commodities may have grown too large. Ditto for emerging markets and small-cap stocks. But big-cap U.S. stocks (especially in health care and consumer staples) may have shriveled too far. Real estate may have shrunk as a part of your portfolio too, but because most investors are homeowners, they already have a stake in that game. By all means, stick to your dollar-cost-averaging regimen, whereby market volatility actually boosts returns because you automatically buy while prices are down...
...that time there were just 2,251 Oroqen in China. By the 2000 census, the population had grown to 8,196. For many Oroqen, the end of a hunting lifestyle meant never wondering where their next meal would come from. "Before liberation, Oroqen went to the edge of extinction," reads a plaque at the Oroqen Museum in Alihe, the banner's capital, which credits the Communist Party with helping the tribe make the leap from primitivism to modernity. "Oroqen are marching towards the magnificent future...
...movie—and directed by Nicholas A. Stoller ’98, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” has all the elements of a romantic comedy, mixed with Apatow’s penchant for ribald laughs, vulgar language, and nudity. Segel plays Peter Bretter, a grown-up version of his lovable oaf character from “Freaks and Geeks.” Peter, a struggling composer, is devastated when his beautiful, TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, breaks up with him. To get over his ex, Peter takes the advice of his brother and jets...
...don’t understand what we’re singing,” Yapp says. But according to Viramontes, understanding the language is secondary. “The music communicates what the song it trying to say,” she says. Established in 2001, Mariachi Veritas has grown rapidly. It began as a little group who did small campus performances and didn’t even have traditional mariachi outfits. Mariachi Veritas now has 11 members, who can be seen wearing their black trajes with crimson sashes and a sombrero to complete the look. As a group, Mariachi...