Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uses a technique called reportage, or fictionalized reporting. Liu "analyzes basic social conditions that [allow] corruption to grow," author Perry Link wrote...
...difference between coming out of college and coming out of the front lines of New York City after working there for five years," he says. And Lodge says the Institute wanted "actors who were professional and not kids who thought they wanted to be actors when they grow...
...past-life regression therapy, and sound and color healing, among other things. "I want this to be all mine, my energy, my control," says MacLaine. "I want a big dome-covered meditation center and a series of dome-covered meeting rooms because spiritual energy goes in spirals. We'll grow all our own food and eat under another dome. I want to turn a profit with this so I can build another center and another. I want to prove that spirituality is profitable...
...companies may be playing a losing game, and for high stakes. In the past year, many have watched their business stagnate, as past hit toys lost their novelty but few new ones seemed to capture shoppers' imaginations. Sales this year are expected to grow a meager 3.4%, compared with an average of nearly 6% over the past three years. The price of some toy stocks tumbled more than 40% in October, further than the shares of any other industry. Such leading firms as Mattel, Coleco and Worlds of Wonder all posted larger losses than usual in the normally slow first...
...also sense changes in temperature and may ask for a sweater if it is taken outside. Julie has encountered some rivals on its way to the toy stores. Mattel offers the precocious Baby Heather ($120), whose age can quickly change from six months to two years if its "grow up" button is pressed. Heather's blond head has several sensors that pick up sound, so it can turn and face the direction from which someone is speaking. Playmates, of La Mirada, Calif., has come out with Jill, ($150) a trendy twelve-year-old companion and raconteur. Telling a story about...