Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday mornings, "Tots and Toddlers" on Tuesday, "Mother's Day Off" on Wednesday, and has an informal play group for neighborhood children on Thursday. Her schedule is organized around attending these cleverly-named play groups, supervising naptimes, providing balanced meals and recording landmark achievements in her "little Melissa's" growth. The classic lawyerly question--Where were you on the night of June 4th?--in this case was transposed to. How tall was your little Melissa as of June 10th? Mrs. Stern was quick with the answer, and hence she proved to the court her credentials as a mother...
...just getting started: the first commercial projects appeared less than five years ago, and are now finding widespread application (see following story). The supercomputer manufacturers, on the other hand, having supplied high-speed processors to government labs and intelligence agencies for a quarter-century, are now experiencing a growth so explosive that it has taken even the most optimistic industry leaders by surprise. Sales of the machines, which cost $5 million to $25 million each, have increased 25% a year or more over the past decade, and in 1988 will pass the $1 billion-a-year mark for the first...
Edward Yardeni, director of economics at Prudential-Bache Securities, also sees an interruption of the business cycle, but for a different reason. Rather than an economy-wide downturn, he says, the U.S. has been experiencing a "rolling recession" that has moved from one sector to another without halting overall growth. While agriculture, the oil business and heavy industries like steel have slumped in recent years, high-tech companies, financial services and fast-food outlets have thrived. Now retailers and stockbrokers may be facing hard times, but farming and manufacturing are recovering...
...CAPTION: GROWTH CYCLES...
DESCRIPTION: Growth cycles and periods of recession in months from October 1949 to the Present: artwork shows man holding flat tire; another person on motorcycle...