Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Malone cited his experience as state treasurer to show how government agencies can simultaneously shrink in size and grow in effectiveness...
...worst worry for teenage girls may be worry itself. Anxious girls seem to grow up to be as much as two inches shorter than nonanxious ones, a study suggests. ANXIETY may somehow inhibit the body's production of growth hormone...
...obligation to actually do it. Being in Martha's thrall is like buying a treadmill and instantly feeling fit even though it serves mainly as a coat rack; acquiring the Martha oeuvre makes you think you will conduct a beautiful domestic symphony one of these days--when the kids grow up, when you lose your day job and perhaps the lunkhead you've married who likes meat loaf and ketchup. The magazine and television show bearing her name and developed with Time Inc. (she and the company are talking about restructuring the relationship) have a Merchant-Ivory movie-set glow...
...casinos from Las Vegas to Istanbul, Turkey, and plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will continue to grow our hotels [as well as] gaming and maintain them at 50-50," Bollenbach says. So travelers will still find beds at Hilton without having to risk losing their shirts...
...used to determine family relationships (that's how scientists determined that a woman named Anna Anderson was not, as she claimed, Princess Anastasia of Russia) or hereditary diseases (that's how they hope to prove Lincoln suffered from Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes its victims grow tall and gangly). Hair also soaks up drugs and other foreign substances from the body (low levels of arsenic in Napoleon's hair established that the ex-Emperor probably wasn't poisoned, as some historians believed...