Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victories on which Nasser has grown so great are often setbacks for his people. Though he has forced the British out of Egypt, his country is poorer, self-deprived of desperately needed Western aid, sapped by retaliatory boycott, and helpless before a rate of population growth so steep that there can be no hope of abating the general misery for years. Though he merged Syria in his United Arab Republic with glowing promises of prosperity in Arab brotherhood, the first consequences for Syrians were a decline in the value of their money, a stiff boost in tariffs, and destruction...
...twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...
...different note, Burns, examining "A Balanced Policy Toward Uncommitted Areas," discussed the disparity between the U. S. and Soviet economic aid policies toward the nations of Africa and Asia. Burns explained that while America's criterion is stimulation of economic growth, Russia's is persuasion...
Sometimes a virus enters a cell and makes it multiply over and over, even if its unruly growth kills the animal of which the cell is a part. Several kinds of animal cancer are caused by such viruses, whose DNA presumably takes command and makes the cells multiply wildly...
This would be true growth, say the geneticists, and evolution would soon improve the original breed. DNA would eventually wrap itself in cells and retire to their nuclei to give orders. Cells would later band together into multicelled animals, but they would not escape the commands of the DNA within them. Samuel Butler wrote: "A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." Geneticists like to make this remark more general: "All plants, and animals and humans," they say, "are DNA's way of making more...