Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scale of the Super Bowl happening is staggering. It has commanded the largest audience ever for a single sporting event televised in the U.S. The number should grow even larger when the Oakland Raiders and Minnesota Vikings contend for the Super Bowl title this weekend in Los Angeles. One of every three Americans?male and female, newborn to nonagenarian?will see at least some of the game; just nine nations in the world have a total population larger than the Super Bowl's TV audience. Only the World Cup soccer final, a few heavyweight championship fights, and the Olympics attract...
...creation of a modern economic sector in the cities destroys the natural economy of the rural areas. The countryside, in turn, exacts its revenge, however; the rural population floods into the cities. This migration saps the cities' resources and makes them impossible to manage. The modern sector can't grow to absorb the entire population of the country. In the end, argues Schumacher, production methods adopted by poor countries destroy their chances for self-reliance and self-help...
...father went to high school, John Prine. For five years and four albums, Prine has been hanging in there as a cult figure. He was pretty much the originator of A.C.--alternative country--the kind of bent-out-of-shape country music that comes easy if you had to grow up with Roy Acuff and Porter Waggoner and WSL-Nashville and Martha White biscuits and their goddamn commercials. The best of John Prine's songs are about what it is to grow up in and hate a rural town, hating Main Street and the Baptist preachers and Vietnam and racism...
...when the U.S. extends the twelve-mile fishing limit to 200 miles on March 1. There is also the question of legislation to deal with the Arab boycott of U.S. firms doing business with Israel. She must manage $2 billion in current public works spending, an amount that could grow with new economic stimulus. Finally, Kreps must look after the heavily subsidized but still sickly U.S. maritime fleet...
...cops approach seems anachronistic. But the jabs are rapid and effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official meeting: "An arrangement whereby...