Word: grows
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...White Knight. Powell, 59, remains Dole's first choice, even as the prospects of this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
What the first-quarter results make clearer is that the economy can grow more than 3% while holding real inflation below 2%. The same can be said about unemployment. The latest unemployment figures came in at 5.4%; that's well below the 6% unemployment figure that is supposed to trigger inflation through demands for higher wages, according to the standard view. This view fails to take into account the forces of global competition. American workers no longer compete for jobs only with one another, but with workers worldwide, and that tends to dampen wage demands at home. Wage inflation...
...language we are taught from the time we are children influences our thinking in strange and powerful ways. Girls must know that they can grow up to be powerful People Formerly Known As Women, without being intimidated by the grandeur of the Heralayas or the pursuit of womental excellence. --Adam B. Stein...
While the University's curricula may encourage students who enter to "grow in wisdom" and "serve mankind" upon graduation, a degree in fine arts or social studies is not necessarily marketable, and doesn't ensure a future...
CORN FARMERS They grow the raw material for gasohol, the wacky '70s fad suddenly a little less wacky...