Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come as a godsend to David Clem. An urban studies and planning major from MIT and youngest president of the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation (RCCC) Clem is clearly the youth candidate on the ticket. That doesn't necessarily mean he is inexperienced in Cambridge politics. Although he didn't grow up in Cambridge, Clem is already a fixture in Cambridgeport, where he hopes to cut into incumbent Daniel J. Clinton's home-turf margin. And Clem is not lacking in support from the Harvard Square area, having tickled the collective fancy of the ritzy Brattle...
...girls fall behind in these areas of study in a relative decline that continues through adolescence and into adulthood. In reading ability and knowledge of literature, girls are ahead of boys until age 17, but the same pattern of relative decline shows up as they grow older. Only in writing ability and music do females outperform males in later years...
...will help calm money markets that had been nervous about the W.T. Grant Co. bankruptcy and the continuing financial woes of New York City. It is also an unmistakable sign that the board is easing its recent tightfisted monetary policy, and will let the nation's money supply grow enough at least to hit its own announced target of 5% to 7½ a year. That, in turn, should ease fears that high interest rates will choke off the recovery: last week Southwest Bank of St. Louis cut its prime rate on business loans from...
...have averaged almost 19% yearly-twice the U.S. rate-even though more than 7% of the work force is unemployed. Moreover, Canada has been plagued by more work stoppages than any major industrialized country except strike-happy Italy, and experts lately have worried that without controls the situation could grow worse. The postal workers, for example, last week threatened to shut down mail service for the seventh time in two years unless Canada Post gives in to their demand for a 71% pay and benefits hike. Large U.S. corporations with subsidiaries in Canada, such as American Can Co., have warned...
...People's Economy, were honored for developing "linear programming" or "activity analysis," techniques that are part of the computerization of the "dismal science." They enable capitalists and commissars alike to make the most efficient use of workers, machines and raw materials, and to determine how fast production should grow...