Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alternative to being a trusting sucker was being a cold-blooded liar. A longtime Democratic official, who has never been in Clinton's camp, watched the mopping-up operation and marveled at the way the Clintons had used their own misery, if that's what it was, to grow new arms and legs. "Do I think she may have been hurt? That it was potentially a much more graphic thing than she ever expected? That it questioned the validity of their marriage? Sure. But they are working hard to cast it not as a presidential issue but as a personal...
...principled resignation could be the one act of leadership that could save his own projects. Instead of draining energy from his party, his Vice President, his economic priorities, his country, he would reinvigorate them all. In this situation, further defenses further diminish him. With resignation, he would grow. He would be saying that the goals he fought for are more important than personal pride or prerogatives. He would change grudging approval and nagging doubts into open admiration. He would win back followers by doing what the leader must do, by directing their attention and energies to the goal they were...
...crowd, a person starts to value the right not to watch and not to care. What we now know is approximately what we knew at the start. He did it; we're sorry he did; he must be sorrier than anyone else that he did it. Time to grow up and move...
Regardless of your income, many states allow you to either prepay tomorrow's tuition at today's rates or save in some other tax-favorable education account, for instance one that lets your money grow tax-deferred, much like...
...spring and fall holding a transistor radio to my ear and listening to the announcer describe my favorite team's game. Will it be the same for my eight- and 11-year-old children? Nostalgia may appeal to us boomers, but what about the kids? Want another generation to grow up fans of baseball? Schedule more day games! Time after time, I have to tear my kids away from televised baseball in the early innings because it's their bedtime. During the play-offs and World Series it gets even worse. Wake up and revise schedules so kids...