Word: grows
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...everyday consumer appliance--even a fashion accessory. Alcatel claims to have taken 10% of the world phone market with a cheap handset available in rainbow colors that appeal to women. The marriage of prepaid calling cards and cheap mobile phones has made markets in Italy, Ireland and Portugal grow nearly 38% a year because there is no subscription fee or phone bill at the end of the month. In Israel some 200,000 units of a phone known as the Mango, which can call only one number, have been sold: principally to parents, who give them to their children...
...beard is shorter than the Taliban's fist, the offender is publicly whipped. But next door in Iran, Shi'ite Muslims believe that according to the Koran, a beard can be a stubbly 1 cm long. Nawaz Sharif, whose chin is cherub-smooth, was asked if he too would grow a beard. No, he replied, nor will women in Pakistan be forced to veil themselves or stay indoors. Some women are skeptical. "It's a terrible thing. We are already practicing Muslims," says Rashida Patel, president of the Pakistan Women Lawyers' Association in Karachi. "With this new law, do they...
...Mandela and Jiang remind us of a simple fact: When we do grow old, there will indeed be thousands of people scattered around the world who will have met us, whose lives we will have touched, for whom our own lives have been either a blessing or a curse. They may never meet one another, but they are our legacy; it is they who will beat their way in to protest against us or to cheer for us or to award us their honorary degrees. Because they remind us of this fact, we are privileged to have famous people join...
...outperformed the S&P for the 13 years during which he made Fidelity's Magellan Fund America's largest--brought his common-sense wisdom to bear on the issue. He's adamant that the real value today is in the little stocks, and he's confident that some will grow to be big ones. You have to get the next Ciscos and Intels precisely when they are not hot if you are ever going to get rich at this game...
...bitter, cynical, meanspirited person. Being good-willed is important to us, and we'll support anyone in high places who proves to have that virtue, especially if he works as hard as Clinton. The skeptics could learn a lot from this President, if only he would grow up. JOSEPH PETULLA Berkeley, Calif...