Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ironically, it was the Government's failure to apply a safe-rather-than- sorry standard to another fruit that set off a similar fruit frenzy a week earlier. It started with a report from the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental group, that apples treated with the growth regulator Alar were soaking small children with dangerously high levels of daminozide, a possible carcinogen. 60 Minutes aired the story, and actress Meryl Streep, now a leading lady in the fight against pesticides, was quickly booked solid on talk shows and Capitol Hill. Soon apples were ordered removed from school cafeterias...
Dean Graham T. Allison '62, who has led the school through a period of unprecedented growth, has been sharply criticized. During his 12-year tenure, Allison has worked with Bok to increase the school's endowment from $20 million to more than $150 million. During that time, the school has also built three buildings and more than tripled the number of degree candidates...
...emphasis on fundraising has also resulted in the school's speedy but disorganized academic growth. While the school has successfully attracted big-name politicos like Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, it has acquired an increasingly negative reputation for producing technocrats who lack a firm grounding in governmental theory...
Bernstein added that there has been "an unfortunate growth in the area of gossip and celebrity journalism...reporting is really the last priority for the networks...
...after bad. As a result, debtor countries found themselves using more and more of their scarce currency reserves to pay their debts. Last year Latin American nations paid $26 billion in interest to their creditors but received only $6 billion worth of new bank loans. The results were stagnant growth and a rate of inflation that has soared to 400% in Argentina and 1,000% in Brazil...