Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentences expire to make room for others. More than 300,000 newcomers arrive annually, straining a system already near the breakpoint. The state department of education estimates that it must absorb 800,000 new students and build 933 new schools during the next decade just to keep pace with growth...
...leveled and replaced by an ugly mini- mall, Morris revolted. "My life has become an endurance test," he moans. He is now a zealous activist in the biggest grass-roots political movement to hit California since the property tax revolt a decade ago. A new battle cry -- Slow Growth -- is erupting from once placid neighborhoods plagued with congested streets and schools. Fed up with sprawling condos, office towers and mini-shopping centers plunked down among single-family houses, residents are demanding limits on unbridled real estate development. The state may never be the same...
...announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen from 5.9% in November to 5.8% in December, its lowest level since 1979. To most people, that sounds like good news, but nobody has ever accused Wall Streeters of thinking like most people. To a bond trader, lower unemployment means faster growth, more inflation and higher interest rates. So bond prices slumped, and that triggered a drop in stocks. Investors were also concerned because the dollar started dipping again on Friday and because they feared that Government figures on the mammoth U.S. trade deficit due for release this week would show little...
...seventh week of embryonic growth, reported Chief Researcher David Page, the presence of the TDF gene appears to launch a process that leads to male sexual development; without it, the fetus will be female. The scientists, whose findings appear in the Dec. 24 issue of the journal Cell, caution that the evidence is still circumstantial, and the discovery will have no immediate application. Even so, says UCLA Geneticist Larry Shapiro, "they have begun to unravel one of the most complex mysteries of biology. We have a long way to go, but this is certainly a major step along...
...most important result of this research," says Peter Goodfellow, of London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, whose lab had predicted the gene's location, "is that it could provide a model system for development in general." Explains UCLA's Shapiro: "It's not just a question of triggering the growth of gonads. It's how a cell decides whether it becomes a muscle cell or a skin cell...