Word: growth
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...fallout of 1969 also greatly expanded a transformation in the composition of the overseers that had been underway for the past century. The Board saw a dramatic growth in the traditional outsiders among its ranks--non-Bostonians, minorities, and the Board's first woman, Helen H. Gilbert '36, who joined the body...
...that activity, say observers both in and outside of the University, marks a new, aggressive era of expansion into Cambridge by Harvard. That growth has attracted practically no attention from those traditionally opposed to University growth, such as students and the Cambridge City Council...
...goal of the Venice meeting -- to boost global economic growth -- calls for fundamental, and thus more difficult, changes in disparate national economic policies. Even so, financial markets turned optimistic last week as the summit meeting neared. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks rose 48.37 points over the previous week, closing at | 2291.57. The U.S. dollar staged its strongest rally of the year, rising about 2% against the yen and the deutsche mark in two days. Experts wondered, however, whether the financial markets could continue to pay such handsome returns in the face of dismal economic...
Less pleasant sensations may come when the leaders contemplate the wilting international economy. Growth in the industrial world this year is expected to be a limp 2%, down from 2.5% last year. The rate of expansion of world trade is also expected to slow to 2.5% this year, down from about...
Golding, 75, carries off the impersonation of a polished but callow young blade of the period as convincingly as he did in Rites of Passage. For all of Talbot's well-heeled stuffiness, he constantly betrays, sometimes in spite of himself, his capacity for growth. Prolonged exposure to the "whole imaginable world" of his ship rattles his aristocratic preconceptions. The white line painted across the deck at the mainmast, segregating the common seamen and emigrants fore from the officers and better class of people aft, comes to seem ridiculous as the peril shared by everyone aboard increases. First Lieut. Summers...