Word: growth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...
...Rostow has been away too long and his courses are being taught differently. Second, Rostow's own interests have changed from economics to world politics. Lastly, there is a deep-running hostility to Rostow as a scholar. Indeed, when Rostow published his celebrated book, The Stages of Economic Growth (1960), from which Kennedy borrowed the phrase "New Frontier," the reviews by his fellow economists challenged his conclusions as superficial...
...bizarre idea for peeling sheep occurred to Geneticist Clair E. Terrill while he was studying the results of experiments with anti-cancer drugs. In tended to halt the growth of cells in malignant tumors, the drugs were also found to interrupt cell growth in the hair roots of test animals - including sheep - causing them to lose their hair temporarily...
...just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...
...nation to sacrifice some monetary sovereignty and turn over more authority to the International Monetary Fund. But the harsh fact is that the current, outdated system has already cost much sovereignty by forcing nations to take unwanted and potentially unhealthy steps to raise taxes, restrict trade and deflate economic growth for the sake of sound money...