Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuddly Cabbage Patch Kids were once every small child's dream, but sales peaked in 1985 and have been falling ever since. In 1986 Coleco made a seemingly shrewd move in buying the company that held the license to the popular Trivial Pursuit game, but soon yuppies began to grow tired of asking one another questions like "Who played the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion...
...balloon to 1 million over the next five years. That would put Sassy in the same league as its chief competitors, Seventeen (circ. 1.86 million) and Teen (circ. 1.19 million), and make it much more successful than Ms. has ever been. Which prompts an obvious question: Will Sassy readers grow up to become Ms. subscribers? "I don't think there's a teenage girl who doesn't think she will have a worthwhile career and do anything a boy can do," says Yates, "so there certainly seems to be a lot of potential." Indeed, Yates is banking...
...locks shorn, one eye swollen, two front teeth missing. Twice he has been beaten bloody by older inmates. "They were big," says the 85-lb. Frog. He seems harder, more wary. Then a visitor mentions that cocaine comes from a plant grown in South America. Frog's eyes grow wide, and he suddenly looks like the confused little boy he is. "You think it is a plant?" he asks in astonishment. "That's silly. Everybody knows cocaine comes from Compton ((a town just south of Los Angeles)). The gangsters make it there...
...blaze a trail of righteousness. Or he simply elevated his vaunted ruthlessness to new heights, depending on whom you asked. Either way, history was being shaped. No journalist could resist going along for the ride. . It was to be a short one, just long enough for a candidate to grow and change before the nation's eyes. And then an assassin took history into his own hands. Just as the world was beginning to know him, Bobby Kennedy left...
...time passes, tutors say, prisoners grow interested in the schoolwork. Inmates speak of fellow prisoners who originally came for the "good time" but grew interested in algebra. After a while, some prisoners are more eager to do school work than their tutors. "I feel like I've brought out in some guys an interest that was latent," Freed says...