Word: growth
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More substantively, says a Bush adviser, "the instinct for change is stronger in California than in any other state." Suburbanites may still be generally anti-tax, but their allegiance is being divided by other concerns. They are worried about haphazard commercial growth in residential neighborhoods, gridlocked traffic and parking shortages, air pollution, poor schools -- all problems that seem to call for the governmental solutions that Democrats traditionally favor and Republicans oppose...
...proponents of the entrepreneurial boom, the complaints are sour grapes and nonsense. They point to the starring role that small firms have played in recent U.S. economic growth. Since 1980, as the biggest U.S. industrial corporations have restructured, cutting their payrolls by some 3.1 million workers, small companies have created more than 17 million new jobs. The Reagan Administration estimates that firms with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 63.5% of all new employment between 1980 and 1986. Small firms have also contributed to the resurgence of U.S. manufacturing exports. In a study of more than 400 small high-tech...
...Harvard Business Review. Supply-Sider George Gilder, author of the book The Spirit of Enterprise, cites the roaring success of several of the newest Silicon Valley semiconductor firms -- including Chips & Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor -- as proof that such start-ups are the best hope for continued U.S. economic growth. In what Gilder calls the "law of the microcosm," he contends that the use of computers has given individuals more opportunity to innovate. Says he: "As circuitry is compressed onto single chips, it enhances enormously the power of individual designers and entrepreneurial creators...
...brain-cancer victims. Researchers have known for some time that disks formed of chemical structures called polymers work well for dispensing small molecules like nitroglycerin, a pain reliever commonly used for heart patients. But the polymers seemed stubbornly resistant to releasing larger molecules of substances like insulin and growth hormones in the slow, steady doses needed for diabetics and underdeveloped children...
Skeptics, and supporters as well, say the growth of private judging is limited by the fact that it works mostly in the relatively small number of cases in which both parties want to come to agreement -- for example, in disputes between business partners who want to go on working together. But to keep growing, the private outfits continue to come up with new offerings. If either side in the Harper-Lorimar case is unhappy with the eventual verdict, for example, some of the rent-a-judge outfits have a new option they could always look into: rent-an-appeals-judge...