Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...During his years as a student in Cambridge, he had not yet grown interested in Harvard politics...
...number of U.S.-based nonprofits has grown at twice the rate of for-profit ventures in recent years. And it's no coincidence this surge is happening as the huge and famously antiestablishment baby-boom generation starts to rattle another cage. You may be getting the itch...
Iraq's Sunnis, for their part, have grown adept at playing to wider Middle Eastern concerns about Iran's influence in the region. Sunni politicians stoke these anxieties in the hope that Arab pressure on the Iraqi government will force it to give Sunnis a greater share of power. "If the Arab states don't come to our help, they will find [Iran] at their gate," says Mohammed Bashar al-Faidi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "For the sake of the entire Muslim community worldwide, the beast has to be destroyed in Iraq." For leaders of terrorist...
...Miami. By the age of 10, when most of us were still learning how to add and subtract fractions, Nadzhafova was playing the piano in musical festivals and even snagging first place in a few international competitions. Now, at 17, her résumé of prizes has grown lengthy. Nadzhafova’s chaperone, Svetlana Gorzhevskaya, the program director for arts and culture for the foundation, says that competitions are essential for young pianists. “It’s one of the major ways to expose yourself,” she says. Nadzhafova is now applying...
...girls that young to wear hejab (as the veil is known in Iran), and I looked at my friend inquiringly. The little girl insists on wearing it, my friend told me; she thinks it makes her look like her mommy. The girl beamed beneath her scarf, imagining herself quite grown-up. You can't really explain to a five-year-old that mommy wears hejab because it is mandatory, and that if given the choice, she would prefer otherwise...