Word: grown
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...social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Despite having grown up in the States, she sometimes has the nagging suspicion that she may be a bit more Fresh Off the Boat than she realized. Follow her attempts to play Alice Walker for Asian America in “The Color Yellow,” which will run on alternate Wednesdays...
...marketing campaigns to remind citizens about the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the genesis of the present Union. To the horror of Euro-skeptics around the world, the Union—which started in Rome with six countries in an economic alliance—has since grown relentlessly, adapting and surviving more than one failed referendum. In fact, the French and Dutch in 2005 were not the first to reject the EU; the Norwegians, for example, repeatedly voted against joining. The main problem with the 2005 vote was that many national constituencies confounded the EU constitution with...
...tripled the budget for border security - and again, I don't think many on the right would begrudge those expenditures or the money, and we've kept other discretionary spending virtually flat, often below the rate of inflation," Rove said. "Are there parts of the budget that we've grown? Yes. But if you look at the discretionary domestic side of the budget, you'll see we've put the brakes on pretty hard...
...Yushchenko-Yanukovych coalition - with Tymoshenko leading a strong parliamentary opposition - might even resolve Ukraine's ongoing political tug-of-war. Yanukovych's PR has grown into a party of big business that, all the lip service to Russia notwithstanding, wants to open up to the West, albeit not as rapidly as Yushchenko desires. Nor has Ukraine done too badly despite the political turmoil: the economy has grown at an annual rate of 7.5% in the first six months of this year (versus 5.5% the same period last year), says Alla Kovtun, a Kiev-based economist. Its currency stable, and foreign...
...country's traditional oligarchy is made up of a dozen families that have intermarried for generations to, as they say, "keep the blood pure." But as those families have grown, migrated and diversified in recent generations, their collective clout as a social elite has weakened. Today, an oligarchic last name no longer guarantees its bearer the influence or money once attached...