Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like people who live near the mouth of a volcano, the citizens in the hills of Los Angeles County know that there is no end to disaster. Eventually the rainy season will drench the denuded hills with flash floods. Then the mesquite and chaparral will grow back on the hillsides. After that, the humidity will fall again...
...muscle of the chest wall to which it is normally attached. The uplift device is inserted in the pocket, with its Dacron backing placed against the muscle. Thus the tissues of the breast itself do not come into contact with any mesh or sponge material into which they could grow-only with the impermeable surface of the Silastic bag. A further advantage is that the soft tissue of the natural breast is outward; it feels normal to the patient and facilitates a doctor's examination for cysts or tumors...
...were taking Enovid for contraception, and the company is now manufacturing 3,000,000 pills a day. All told, the number of U.S. women using them is probably edging toward 3,000,000. And the manufacturers are almost certainly right in their calculation that the market will continue to grow. Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, one of the original investigators, first in Puerto Rico and now in Mexico, says: "It's extremely rare to find a woman willing to accept another method once she knows that 'the pills' exist. Even the poorest, with little or no schooling...
...work; the median age for women workers has risen to a high 41 years. On average, today's American woman marries at 20, has only two or three children, and can expect to live to the age of 73-which leaves her 30 useful years after her children grow up. She usually returns to work not because she has to make ends meet but because she wants to live better, buy a second car, take a European vacation, or bankroll her children through college. The automation of factories has actually opened more places for her, since no brawn...
...increasing need for power is caused by the world's rapidly expanding population, the steady industrialization of underdeveloped nations and the increasing affluence of the West. Wealthier nations tend to treat electricity as if it were air; merchants often leave lights blazing all night, and big cities never grow dark. In the U.S., the average number of appliances in the home has risen from ten to 40 (including lamps) in 25 years, with a consequent drain on power. But electricity has also become a necessity in whole areas of the world that only recently regarded it as a luxury...