Word: growth
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...studies of genetic diseases suggest that the chromosomes from the two parents can play slightly different roles. For example, children who through a reproductive malfunction receive two copies of chromosome No. 7 from their mother and no copy from their father sometimes suffer from a severely retarded growth rate. Naturally occurring cases of a kidney cancer called Wilms tumor are caused by a missing chromosome. But in almost all cases, the missing chromosome was the mother's, not the father...
...stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated the debt deal. That shift, which will reduce Mexico's cost of financing its budget deficits, gives the country another much needed boost toward new growth...
...realities of white-black relations. Race remains near the surface of American life, but it is almost always publicly viewed through narrow prisms: a legal wrangle over affirmative action, a political campaign, an isolated incident of racial violence. Sharp disagreements about the origins and implications of the alarming growth of the black underclass and fears of drug-related crime have widened a gulf of mutual incomprehension between the races. Even in private discourse, whites and blacks have lost the capacity to talk to each other honestly about the subject that divides them more than any other...
Some of the optimists expect the expansion to be kept afloat by three major forces: exports, housing and capital spending. No one thinks exports will repeat the explosive growth of last year, when sales abroad jumped nearly 30%, thanks largely to a declining U.S. dollar. One reason U.S. firms should find receptive markets overseas is that the economies of Western Europe and Japan are still rapidly expanding. European Community members are expected to sustain 3% growth in 1989, and Japan is likely to show a 5% gain for the fiscal year ending next March...
...year. Last week the Government reported that housing starts during June rose 7%, to an annual rate of 1.4 million. Even so, some experts are cautious about predicting a housing boon because the rise was entirely attributable to an increase in multifamily houses and apartment buildings. There was no growth in single-family-home construction, which forms the largest part of the industry...