Word: grown
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...biggest problem in regard to China is that the contradiction between their market economy and communist rule has grown immensely. In this situation there is a unique role that can be played by Japan, given the fact that Japan is similar to China in terms of culture and ethnicity and has a relationship that spans more than 1,000 years. Using this unique position, Japan should make every effort, together with the United States, to persuade and encourage China to move toward democratization...
...friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma's commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending to a plant that he knows is only grown to die. In Dec. 2005, Burma's economically inept junta - one of its leaders once decided to denominate the national currency by multiples of nine because he liked the number - decided that the country's future lay in a shrub called jatropha...
...decided it would spend $700 billion to shore up the nation's flailing financial system, about 100 shareholders of Reunion Bank of Florida gathered for a party. Over crab fondue and London broil, they toasted the start of their spanking new bank. It had been decades since a locally grown bank had opened in Tavares, an old citrus hub about an hour by car from Orlando. "We had folks drive from 45 miles away," recalls Reunion co-founder and CEO Mike Sleaford. "Everyone was so excited...
...think Moore looks at more of those big picture issues.”TAKING COMICS SERIOUSLY The quality of the graphic novel continues to improve today, with writers such as Art Spiegelman producing Pulitzer prize-winning works. “I think that graphics as a medium has grown up with people like Marjane Satrapi and Speigelman,” says Adam L. Kern, an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages who teaches a class on Japanese literature. “And I think that’s been something that’s revolutionized comics. It?...
...undergraduate study of biology at Harvard has grown increasingly specialized over the past three years, with Harvard now offering nine life science concentrations—including HDRB—as of next fall...