Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program, which is being administered by CARE, is intended to feed 120,000 people until the end of the summer, when a crop, planted in early June when spotty rains began to fall, can be harvested. Several dozen people have already died of starvation and the total may well grow...
...estimated, would provide two weapons for every man, woman and child. A study made by a mathematician at M.I.T. showed that one out of every eleven children born in Atlanta in 1974 who stayed in the city would eventually be killed if the murder rate continued to grow as it has in the past...
Levy does not believe the OPEC countries can increase their imports as rapidly as the banks assume. Morgan Guaranty predicts the OPEC countries' imports will grow by 20% a year. Levy concedes that OPEC imports rose even more than that last year, but doubts the oil countries can keep up the pace. The thinly populated Arab states lack the expertise, labor, port facilities and inland transportation network necessary to handle that big a tide of foreign goods. In addition, many of last year's imports were fighter planes, tanks and other highly destructive weapons, and there are questions...
...thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged for coal, company officials came to him for help. "Won't be a damned thing grow," they said. "But go ahead and plant it. That's the law." Under Turk's care, things grew...
...land. Crisscrossed by enormous rock-strewn furrows, the land had no cover of vegetation, no wildlife-not even insects. With help from the U.S. Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly...