Word: grows
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...here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots. The air was thin...
...notes TIME's Economics correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Investors have been worried all year that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates," says Zagorin. The Fed did not raise rates after the other upticks in jobs, he says, nor is there any indication they will this time. Even so, a growing number of leading economists are convinced that the Fed will hike the rates sometime soon. Between July 1995 and January 1996, the top bank cut interest rates three times, fearing that a weak economy could lead the nation into a recession. As the economy continues to grow...
...sophomore year, you could feel the tension grow, as if Cambridge were at the eye of a storm about to break. When the explosion arrived in April 1969, it took the form of cops marching into the Yard to clear University Hall of the protesters who occupied...
...focus of the evening news. When the candidates discuss "issues," the issues they discuss are marginal to the true concerns of the public. America desires an improved quality of life that it cannot have while being daily inundated with the absurd "infotainment" thrust into its citizens' homes. Children grow up literally addicted to television and to the self-debasing consumerism fostered by the media trusts. Our future is threatened as much by NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN as it is by MTV, itself the child of media giant Viacom...
Disillusioned by hopes of a close friendship with Ho that did not materialize, Tadesse wrote during her sophomore year, "Trang [Ho] told me I am boring.... If I ever grow desperate enough to seek power & a fearful respect through killing, she would be the first one I would blow...