Word: grows
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...term Alabama governor as contemplating suicide following a 1972 assassination attempt. The 77-year-old Wallace insists that he never considered suicide. Having long since made peace with the black Americans he once opposed, he's concerned that Lee's film will unnecessarily dredge up his segregationist past. "I grow a bit weary with people who were always his critics saying he has to spend the rest of his life apologizing," says son George Wallace Jr. The family is also struggling to keep a lid on a lengthy interview that Lee conducted with Wallace last year, centering...
That availability has also helped lure biotechnology firms. Covance Biotechnology Services, a pharmaceutical company, recently put up a $57 million bioprocessing facility that will house 130 employees by the end of the year. According to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the state's biotech payrolls will grow from 15,000 workers to 100,000 during the next 20 years...
...mean streets, the daily acts of random violence. And after twenty-plus years in the hurly-burly of magazine journalism, it seemed the right time to slow down, find a nice, quiet place to write books and do some teaching, a place where my three young children could grow up without worrying about having their bicycles hijacked. Just before Christmas, my wife and I decided to move to Boulder, Colorado...
...President proposes to pare $100 billion over five years from Medicare and Medicaid by cutting reimbursements to hospitals, HMOs and doctors. Under the President's plan, spending for the two giant health care programs, which cover 75 million poor, disabled and elderly Americans, would not be allowed to grow faster than about 5 percent annually. "Clinton has to hit these big ticket items if he has any realistic chance of balancing the budget," says TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister. "Since Medicaid and Medicare have had big percentage increases in spending in recent years, this is not a revolutionary idea." That...
When Microsoft began to grow in 1980, Gates needed a smart nontechie to help run things, and he lured Ballmer, who had worked for Procter & Gamble, to Seattle as an equity partner. Though he can be coldly impersonal in making business decisions, Gates has an emotional loyalty to a few old friends. "I always knew I would have close business associates like Ballmer and several of the other top people at Microsoft, and that we would stick together and grow together no matter what happened," he says. "I didn't know that because of some analysis. I just decided early...