Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, there are exceptions; among hundreds of thousands of black, Chicano and Indian families, among many of Appalachia's people and in our urban ghettos, which seem to grow and grow, one finds children who are hungry, malnourished, plagued by a variety of untreated illnesses and certainly not catered to-not at home, not at school, not in the neighborhood. There are even children in this country in this century who are born in circumstances no better than those obtained in 1775. If medical knowledge was, at best, primitive at the time of the American Revolution, the first-rate...
...permanent dole. They have few, if any, easily exploitable resources to sell abroad, and most are seemingly unable to grow enough food to feed themselves. The most notable catastrophe countries are Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Bangladesh...
...disagreement over inflation leads to another debate that is muted now but will grow much louder during the election year: Where is the economy headed after 1976? No one would be satisfied permanently with the pattern of high (though declining) unemployment and inflation foreseen for next year. But Sprinkel and Weidenbaum see the year as a bridge to a long-term pattern of balanced, sustainable growth-if moderate fiscal and monetary policies are pursued until what they see as a promising start on wringing inflationary momentum out of the economy is carried through to conclusion. Sprinkel argues that it took...
...Thomas, 60, explaining her decision to put 32 love letters from her late husband, Poet Dylan Thomas, up for auction in London. "Dylan wanted us to be young and unwise forever-to be permanently naughty children. He managed this by killing himself with booze, but I was left to grow old." And poor, apparently. The poet's letters, still in copyright to his trustees, failed to attract a suitable bid and went unsold...
...then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon the vast suburban sprawl so many of us call home, or to face and find meaning in the fact that many of us were raised there on the spiritual analogue of a dry heave...