Word: growth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes they bear the scars of fiery eruptions, more often the erosion lines etched by adaptation and compromise. Next January, one of them will have the opportunity to begin his greatest period of growth...
...Growth. Regardless of the specific problem, both must be considered pragmatists. Each stands at his party's center after more than two decades in national politics. Both have shown great capacity for growth. Nixon started out in 1946 as a follower of Harold Stassen, applauding the Minnesotan's "campaign to liberalize the Republican Party." Stassen gave the young congressional candidate a hand that year, but a decade later tried to have him dumped as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement...
Since the founding of such cities as Eridu and Kish in the valleys of Mesopotamia 5,500 years ago, the city has been the nerve and growth center of civilization. Despite their seemingly insoluble problems, cities are more than ever the creative heart of American society. Indeed, the city and its compounded quandaries-from the problem of race to the issue of law and order-dominate almost all social and political debate in the country today. Ultimately, no city can solve the problems alone, for they belong to the whole society...
...skyscraper basements. In the Wall Street area, where building activity and crowding are most intense, lines form in front of hot-dog carts at lunchtime, and a sign in a Broad Street bookstore reads: "Please-no browsing from 12 to 2." Says Architect Percival Goodman: "Size can mean healthy growth or cancer. In New York, it's become cancer...
Since reorganization over twenty-five years ago, Harvard's Dental School has been the smallest in the nation. Even with the anticipated growth, the school will rank among the smallest...