Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Healy has already instituted a plan to "reduce unnecessary spending, such as travel outside the city by city officials, a freeze on hiring personnel and other budgetary items, while increasing revenue with additional service fees and promotion of growth," according to McDevitt...
...assessor said he was optimistic about the city's ability to gather the necessary revenue. "The growth rate in Cambridge is very favorable, it has consistently gone up. There are many unfinished properties out there, and that means money coming...
...more whose companies are vulnerable to takeover, the influx of bosses from abroad raises some unsettling questions. Will the new managers ask their employees to live by a foreign corporate culture? How successfully will they cope with the American marketplace? In the long run, will the new bosses bring growth and prosperity -- or losses and layoffs...
...company, the obstacles to success rise even higher. One problem is the ambivalence of U.S. workers toward their foreign bosses. More than 75% of U.S. adults surveyed in a poll conducted last spring for a group of Japanese firms agreed that foreign acquisitions have boosted U.S. economic growth, employment and competitiveness. Nonetheless, nearly 75% viewed the increased foreign presence as undesirable...
...with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing so she might have a chance at musical comedy. Still, according...