Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...redefine the roles of women and men. She's happy, in a way, like a new bride entering a locked-up marriage of housework and kids and pain and a few hard fucks, so expectant that she never hears the door click shut. From any stultification, some discontent must grow...
...auto industry is suddenly overwhelmed with problems: consumer dissatisfaction, labor revolts, foreign competition, and an inability to make profits grow. These problems, according to Rothschild, "are based in historical change, and may be compared to the troubles of other industries in other times...most particularly to those of the railroads and textile mills in late-Victorian Britain. The fate of these businesses show a similar pattern: innovation, excitement, inflow of capital, rapid growth, market saturation, demand creation, decreasing productivity and return on capital, a fixation on policies of the past." She might add: subsequent resentment among workers and consumers, competition...
...Union were accomplices in Stalin's crimes. He calls upon the entire nation to confess to the guilt of the past. "Only through the repentance of a multitude of people can the air and the soil of Russia be cleansed, so that a new, healthy national life can grow...
...illness and wild fluctuations in the all-important price of cotton. "It's a market price," Shaw explains, "and it's set before you ever try to sell your cotton, and it's set probably before you gin your cotton and before you gather it or grow it or even plant your seed." During Shaw's prime farming years (roughly 1906 to 1932), cotton brought as little as a nickel and as much as 40? a pound...
...What he (her husband) always speaks of, what seems to him still the sole worthwhile goal of our long living together--that we should grow together in the deepest intimacy--I still do not feel and probably never will learn to feel...