Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irresponsible fiscal policy managed to mortgage the entire country's economic strength and future. Reaganomics is not even a shining success by supply-side standards--the president has all but ignored his campaign promises to balance the budget and slash government spending. The recent period of economic growth has been tempered by the deepest recession since the Great Depression, the panic on Wall Street, the rise of the "twin towers" (the budget and trade deficits) and a trillion dollar jump in the national debt...
With more than 14,000 similar applications pending, the mouse patent shows that we must come to grips with important questions on the ethics and regulation of the newly realized area of biotechnology. The rapid growth of genetic engineering developments is forcing us to decide how far we as a society are willing to let the bounds of science...
...Hallyday. He even publicized an endorsement from Actor Gregory Peck. Not to be outdone, Mitterrand supporters persuaded Veteran Crooner Charles Trenet to record a ditty called Vas-Y Tonton ("Go to It, Uncle," a play on Mitterrand's nickname, "Tonton"). Though campaign advertising is not permitted on television, the growth of privately owned channels in recent years enabled candidates to saturate the tube with appearances on news and feature shows. Even candidates' wives, who in the past played little or no part in campaigns, were lured before the cameras...
...Film Historian Lewis Jacobs saluted Walt Disney as the "virtuoso of the film medium." Twenty years later, this Hollywood Paderewski was playing mostly Muzak. His studio's artistic growth had been stunted, by both the | demand for new product in two mediums and the creeping conservatism that afflicts almost any burgeoning corporation. Yet Disney was always a visionary entrepreneur; he still had magic to do. In the 1950s Disney made three business decisions that would sustain his company until the Eisner years. Decades later, they would profoundly affect the movie business...
...recently wrote that you don't share the view that, at present population growth rates, Israel will one day have an Arab majority and thus that it will have to choose between being a Jewish state and a democracy...