Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Turks in one poll said they were in favor of joining the E.U. By this month that number had dropped to 32%. Nationalist parties critical of the government's pro-E.U. policies are gaining strength. Support for the country's two right-wing Euro-skeptic opposition parties has grown to 26% from about 17% four years ago. If they capture that much of the vote in next year's election, they could force a coalition with Erdogan's AK Party...
...post-nuclear families. You see waistlines growing, hairlines receding. You meet their children at birth, seven, 14 and 21. The series becomes less a window into their lives, more a mirror into ours. For it is only through the severest denial that we can think that they have grown older, been cramped diminished by life, while we have stayed miraculously young, rich in achievement, richer in promise...
...Sanskrit and Indian Studies department (which, incidentally, will benefit from a new name consistent with other regional departments, such as “South Asian Languages and Cultures”) must draw on alumni resources to fund it. (This is how other regional departments at Harvard have successfully grown.) Former University President Lawrence H. Summers was committed to such fundraising efforts, as exemplified by his organizing an alumni conference in Mumbai last year. Yet, the conference failed to raise much support, partially because donors rescinded their offers in light of Summers’ departure. (At least one major donor expressed...
...50th anniversary celebration.When a few students first conceived of starting such a group, in the spring of 1956, they had few resources other than their love for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, with the first patron letter requesting a modest five dollar donation. Since then, HRG&SP has grown into an organization that has involved over 5000 people throughout the years, and produces one of the most popular, best funded performances each semester. Though HRG&SP is less widely known than some other theater groups on campus, such as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, it has a steady following...
...return to the intelligent-but-unrefined rap style Jay first displayed on “Reasonable Doubt,” but it’s a solid addition to his discography. Jay-Z is obviously growing as a person; unfortunately, as a rapper, he’s grown stagnant...