Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After relating the events of that momentous summer, Irving jumps forward to periods of time in 1990 and 1995, following Ruth and Eddie and Ted and assorted friends and lovers as they grow older. But nearly everything that happens in A Widow for One Year is foreshadowed or present in embryonic form in the novel's long opening section. Irving's use of suspense is peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information...
...come back to country. It was a woman who produced that first song a few years ago. But it's the men who turned me from a country listener to a country fan, and it's the men who make me think I want my sons and daughters to grow up in a community of country fans...
...arena," says Dusche. "Frankly, it's a really tough business." But his boss is a really tough businessman. As banking evolves into a competitive, complex business conducted over the Internet, Microsoft software--just as in the PC era--could become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world a tough nut to crack. Well before MSFDC, the industry launched the software consortium...
...serve. Over the course of your four years, you will rise through the ranks of Phillips Brooks House, firing salvoes of bitter invective at University Hall. After you graduate, you will join the Peace Corps or City Year, eager to put yourself to good use. Soon, however, you will grow disgruntled and go to business school. Then you will become an "environmental consultant...
...attractive leadership opportunity at a major medical school, and I think it represents a school that wants to grow and reshape some of its programs," he said...