Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's been more change in this city in the past three years than there were in my entire 16 years," White said. He said Bostonians have a tremendous opportunities to shape the future of the city because there is currently a strong economy stimulating tremendous growth and change...
...lack of space today could have severe implications by restricting future growth of the FAS, which is twice the size of the next largest Harvard faculty...
...there would be enough skin to cover the anticipated 5-in. by 6-in. opening at the back of each baby's head, Plastic Surgeon Craig Dufresne had flown to Ulm in the spring and inserted small balloons under their scalp; these were gradually inflated with saline until a growth the size of a small cantaloupe protruded from the babies' skulls...
...Australians. Alcoholism and malnutrition are so rampant that the expected life span for an Aborigine man is 56, compared with 72 for a white Australian. According to Dr. Michael Gracey, a medical researcher in Perth, high levels of infection, unbalanced diets and poor hygiene are all contributing to impaired growth among Aboriginal children. Trapped in a cycle of poverty, some 200 Aborigines rioted in two Outback towns in Queensland and New South Wales this year. Two weeks ago, 40 demonstrators demanding better housing stormed a government office in the Tasmanian capital of Hobart...
...cholera and influenza, fell from more than 300,000 in the late 18th century to about 170,000 today. At a science conference in Queensland two weeks ago, Historian Gwen Deemal-Hall alleged that the state government was injecting young Aboriginal women with a contraceptive drug to slow the growth of the indigenous population. Queensland officials denied the charge...