Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoked since I was 13. I didn't grow up in this kind of freaky environment that we have in the East Coast. Where I'm from a lost of kids smoke. I started smoking then, and I don't see a reason to quit now," says William A. Blacken-ship '96, who says he smokes two packs...
...volunteer to use our cleverness to change it. Then the next time an election comes, we vote against the taxes that might make prevention programs possible, while favoring increased expenditures for prisons to incarcerate the children who survive the worst that we have done to them and grow up to be dangerous adults...
...syntho-pop ambiance makes serious evaluation difficult. But there is no doubt about the talent of Leila Josefowicz, whose Carnegie Hall performances of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony two months ago were revelatory. An effortless technique and a rich tone that will only grow in size and warmth as she matures indicate that Josefowicz is one to watch...
...enough. The party faithful had complained to his aides over the holiday break that the Speaker's erratic behavior was jeopardizing the revolution. By Tuesday Gingrich's top lieutenants had delivered the news: unless he lowered his profile, the balanced budget would be defeated, and more voters would grow disenchanted. "All the members [had gone] home," says a House Republican leader, "and heard the same thing: 'Keep it up, don't back down and tell Newt to shut up.'" So, on Wednesday, Gingrich went before a closed session of the House Republicans and said he had "thrown one too many...
...mover and shaker in the state assembly: many promises, many coalitions. The question is whether those skills will make him a good mayor, or whether San Francisco will end up with a lot of warring factions." Jackson says the city's already steep cost of living may grow worse under Brown, since the unions, angered by Jordan's unwillingness to accede to their demands for pay raises, have thrown their support behind Brown, expecting better odds with...