Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes. But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow I'll sit at the table When company comes Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then...
...nationwide voter-registration drive to make African Americans into what he calls "a third political power," uncommitted to either of the two major parties. But this is an age of budget cutting and hostility toward big government. And it follows three decades of federal programs that seemed to grow at about the same pace as the pathologies of the ghetto. Given that political and conceptual double vise, what agenda would be both achievable and effective...
...white-collar, service and public-sector employees. Nevertheless, labor's gains still lagged behind the increase in the number of wage and salary workers, which grew some 4% from 1992 to 1994; that caused the share of unionized jobs to continue to fall. "As employment goes up, unions will grow," Donahue says. "The trouble is that as fast as we gain new members, we lose others to corporate downsizing...
Rogol, a graduate of Georgetown, said that the organization is "trying to find a core of support to grow" first here at Harvard and then later at surrounding Boston colleges...
People have to grow up sometime, and as unfortunate as this might be, it seems that this statement is not just one of necessity. It's not just that it is inevitable that we grow up, but rather that it is better for us if we grow...