Word: grows
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...American citizens, we take a strong interest in public policy. We grow uneasy when fundamentalists try to marginalize non-Christians by rewriting history and pretending that our nation's forefathers were devout Christians, or that our government was somehow founded upon Christianity. We grow concerned when freedom of belief is threatened, or when vociferous religious extremists cry for policies based on ultra-conservative religious dogma and their own narrow conception of morality...
...indulgences college allows. And this indulgence can be seen in most aspects of college life. College students are selfish, caught up in their lives and usually their lives only, because they can be; our activities (even our altruistic ones) primarily serve us: they help us grow and develop our conceptions of the good life. And they don't matter too much in the grand scheme of things. Students are expected to make mistakes, and we can change our minds (our concentrations, our plans, our careers, etc.) when we wish...
...Miller, who follows the food industry as an analyst for BT Alex Brown. The supers "have only so much aisle space. They end up introducing people to lots of new products and may very well pull them into a Whole Foods store," she says. Miller expects Whole Foods to grow 25% annually for the next five years...
...time to grow into all the off-ice attention. Sitting at a Benihana's last month, eating a meal called the Rocky's Junior, Kariya touched his cheek and discussed his shaving habits: "A lot more often this year," he says, "every two or three days now." Maybe 2002, in Salt Lake City, will work better for Kariya after all. Gretzky can handle the Japanese...
...smaller increase in Harvard's tuition stemspartly from cost-cutting methods undertaken by theUniversity, Knowles said. He noted thateducational costs continued to grow...