Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down through what is now the Meadowlands. A wounded Korean War vet, he collects $333 a month veteran's compensation, and that, along with $1,200 he and Nora make each year selling their crafts, is enough to buy the various items -- gas, Postum, margarine -- that they can't grow in their garden, hunt, sew, fish for, trade for or find in the Taos County dump...
Sanctions have not, however, been wholly toothless. South Africa's economy, which has been in recession for the past five years, is expected to grow this year by 2% to 3%, a rate that one State Department analyst estimates to be perhaps one percentage point lower than if sanctions had not been imposed. South African exports to the European Community in the first quarter of 1987 plunged 33% below those of the same period last year, and the first half's decline in shipments to the U.S. came to a hefty...
...passages of banal "advice" to parents, Time Flies makes no claim to great significance. That job, as in the earlier book, is left to a plodding introduction by Alvin Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatry professor who is a consultant on Cosby's TV show. And if the kvetching starts to grow wearisome, Cosby manages to end on a note of uplift: " 'Dee-fense!' I am crying to joints that need 3-in-One Oil, to intestines that are begging for custard, and to eyes that are proud of their ability to distinguish day from night. However, I am also counting...
...increase CFC use for ten years, in the interest of making more available to them items like refrigerators. It permits the Soviet Union, which plans its economy in five- year cycles, to go ahead with production scheduled through 1990. Thus the amount of the chemicals produced worldwide will actually grow by as much as 15% in the coming decade, cutting the real decrease by 1999 to just...
Meanwhile, nearly a month after the violent mutiny of Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan and 14 of the country's 86 army battalions, disaffection with Aquino among Philippine troops continued to grow. Playing for time, the President appears to have become heavily dependent on loyal officers in the armed forces. Contributing to the rising sense of danger, the Manila press crackled with new rumors of coups and palace intrigue...