Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women need the role models," Harvard women's swimming Coach Maura Costin Scalise says. "The time from [age 18 to 22] is a crucial growth period. If women have always been coached by men, then they will think that men always hold those positions...
President Bok is expected to announce the school's new dean sometime in the next few weeks. The dean, who will take over for lame duck Dean Graham T. Allison '62 in the fall, will likely mark a transition for the Kennedy School from the skyrocketing growth of the Allison years to a period of consolidation at Harvard's youngest professional school...
Reagan's proudest economic achievement, taming the inflation rate from 12.5% in 1980 to 4.4% last year, has also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
...physiques are a hazardous bargain. Steroids can cause temporary acne and balding, upset hormonal production and damage the heart and kidneys. Doctors suspect they may contribute to liver cancer and atherosclerosis. Teens, who are already undergoing physical and psychological stresses, may run some enhanced risks. The drugs can stunt growth by accelerating bone maturation. Physicians also speculate that the chemicals may compromise youngsters' still developing reproductive systems. Steroid users have experienced a shrinking of the testicles and impotence. Dr. Richard Dominguez, a sports specialist in suburban Chicago, starts his lectures to youths with a surefire attention grabber: "You want...
...example is Britain, with its rigid class structure, its powerful unions, its state-owned industrial dinosaurs, its enormous governmental bureaucracy. Its precipitous postwar decline took place precisely as it was shedding its empire. Thatcher engineered Britain's dramatic renewal in the 1980s, when it had one of the fastest growth rates in Europe, by going after not defense spending but the sclerosis that had set into the system: authoritarian unions, failing state-owned industries, a paternalistic bureaucracy and, by example and rhetoric, the British class system itself...