Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anything that the City and the University can do together constitutes a forward step," she added. "In order to insure further municipal growth, we must alleviate Cambridge's traffic problem...
...well will they sell? If the '59s catch on, they could lead the U.S. economy to its greatest boom. If they flop, recovery might be plodding. Last week, even discounting the usual dealer enthusiasm, the cars looked mighty hot. Government economists, weighing such factors as auto prices, population growth and the age of cars now on the road, predicted 1959-model sales...
While most Southern politicians talk about states' rights and the threat of Communism to mask with more high-toned prejudices their own ambitious use of popular bigotry, some Southerners do not consider these issues entirely rhetorical. They fear big government and the status revolution which accompanies its growth. They sense a creeping commonality which threatens customary moral standards and seems to derogate the supreme values of privacy and personal autonomy...
...answer is endocardial fibro-elastosis, a peculiar hardening of the inner lining of the heart, which has no known cause. The trouble is a growth of white fibrous tissue, which may reach a point where the heart is suddenly shut off. Adult victims usually have a history of congestive heart failure; children may have no symptoms at all. Though the disease seems to be rare, it is being recognized more and more-but still only after death. When Barbara was six, her pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another...
Fowles did have one complaint: discomfort from a plastic tube leading out from his liver through an opening in the abdominal wall. His surgeon had installed it as a substitute bile duct during the operation, believing that continued cancer growth would require it. Fowles angrily agitated for its removal. Some 18 months after his first operation, the doctors agreed to "correct" the tube with surgery-and found all signs of cancer gone. "There wasn't a trace," they say. "We looked everywhere." Fifteen months later, there is still no evidence of cancer...