Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather of old age, the threshold of death--a little buzz before Kevorkian. It is a dulling drug, certainly useful as a palliative for the elderly. The young don't need to have their pain dulled. They need to learn from it. Perhaps baby-boomer parents, as they grow old, should reserve the world's marijuana supply for themselves and for what will no doubt be the gaudy and self-important theatrics of their dying, and encourage their children to be satisfied with becoming better adults than some boomers have managed...
Like O'Keefe, Loewen grew up in the funeral industry. He helped transport bodies to and from his father's Manitoba funeral home. "It was," he would later testify, "a great way to grow up in a small country town." He launched the Loewen Group in 1985. Last year, just a decade later, the company had nearly $600 million in revenue, more than 90% of it from its U.S. operations...
Hicks resigned under pressure and without implementing his vision -- or re-vision -- for St. Paul's School. His resignation hasn't spelled doom for boarding schools; rather, his failure is an affirmation that St. Paul's rejects Dauber's snob image and seeks to grow and diversify. In fact, during all the turmoil that surrounded Hicks' rectorship, the school remained popular and applications flowed in in growing numbers...
...first, we shun such fawning. We tell our family and friends that we go to school in Boston and avoid dropping the H-bomb that might make lesser folk uncomfortable. In polite conversation, we grow adept at unconsciously substituting "major" for "concentration," "resident advisor" for "proctor" and "TA" for "TF." We pretend we go to a school like all other schools, only with a slightly higher average GPA and a slightly worse football team...
...Warner see their record empires crumble? Not for a few more business cycles, at least. According to Jupiter Communications, online-music purchases probably won't exceed $25 million this year--about two-tenths of 1% of the U.S. industry's $12.3 billion total. Even if that number were to grow to 10% by 2000, as Jupiter predicts, most of the revenue is likely to end up in the pockets of the majors. Al Cafaro, president of A&M records, doesn't seem worried about losing Sting or Sheryl Crow anytime soon. "I don't want to say always," he says...