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Word: grows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meanness and partisanship and people behaving more like it's West Side Story than government by and for the people. So if a Governor comes along who looks as if he's trying to walk down the middle and get things done, that's something they could grow very comfortable with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Most of the lasers currently used for LASIK can sculpt an area no wider than 6.5 mm, or a quarter of an inch. So, as you might expect, patients whose pupils grow wider than the average of about 6 mm in the dark often have the biggest problems. An equally critical factor, however, is the amount of correction you need, measured in negative (-) diopters for nearsightedness and positive (+) diopters for farsightedness. The greater your correction, the more abrupt the transition zone between the sculpted and unsculpted portion of the cornea, and the greater the risk of troublesome glare and halos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: R U Ready To Dump Your Glasses? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some freak," she told the newspaper. "I have been a good teacher, but my best days are ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He? She? Whatever! | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange the information and ideas we need to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Newstour to China | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...bustles and basically a 3-to-1 ratio of fabric-to-woman, but my mom was bent on destroying my theory that this was one of those nursing home-companion marriages. I realized after seeing all that exposed flesh that there was no way Pamela Anderson's kids would grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Mother, the Bride | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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