Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stabbing his main antagonist, Jimmie gains respect as a "stand-up guy." He does not let anyone push him around. And in a parallel to her husband's growth, Kate learns to stand up for herself. After Jimmie's arresting officers harrass her, she complains to their superior, Lt. Fitzgerald, credibly played by Badja Djola. Kate riles Fitzgerald to action by claiming his underlings slandered...
OVER the last ten years, costs under the Medicare program have risen at more than four times the rate of inflation. Thousands of senior citizens are grappling with increasing health care costs that outpace their income growth by more than 50 percent...
Nonetheless, I recognize that the daily, violent removal of facial growth is as good as a requirement for the majority of American men. It is therefore no small piece of news that the Gillette Company is this week unveiling its first new razor in more than a decade. As the Boston Globe reported last week, the new razor--the Sensor--has 20 patents and 13 moving parts...
...same river.' Do we deplore what the army did in Tiananmen? Of course. Do we wish the government were different, more democratic, more humane? Of course. But what would you have us do? Take to the streets? For what? We have had ten relatively good years of economic growth and domestic tranquillity. Yes, there is some retrenchment now. But consider the previous ten years, the time of the Cultural Revolution, when everything was at its worst. Do we want to return to that? Take to the streets against those with the guns and risk all that we've gained...
...Asian markets. Since 1986, U.S. trade negotiators have helped cigarette makers break down import barriers in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. As a result, America's worldwide cigarette exports reached $2.6 billion last year, double the sales of 1986. The U.S. industry has come to depend on exports for growth, since a declining number of Americans are smoking. Consumption of cigarettes in the U.S. has fallen about 2% a year, to a volume of 562 billion...