Word: growths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the Internet as the big kahuna, the once and future network to subsume all networks. It's meta. As an infrastructure, it enables the creation and growth of various information technologies using its network language known as TCP/IP...
...even banking reform can ease the pain at this point: "Even if Japan succeeds in revitalizing its banking system, it would take at least three years for the Japanese economy to restore the growth levels of the 1980s," says Baumohl. So when that Hitachi sound system gets cheaper at your local store, it's playing a depression tune...
When it comes to the growth of his company, Schnatter says Papa John's has only begun to expand. Carney alone plans to open at least 600 new stores. To accommodate such whopping increases, Papa John's recently opened a doughmaking commissary in Portland, Ore. It is building another in Pittsburgh, Pa., and plans to add still another in Nevada, which will bring its total to 12. "Now we can get to everywhere in the U.S. and build out," Schnatter says. "We are becoming a national brand." That will give Schnatter even more restaurants to drop in on--and more...
...growth of home-school organizations outside the home, while expanding educational options, inevitably diminishes parents' control over what their children learn and see. Already controversies have sprouted over what kinds of uniforms are appropriate for home-school cheerleaders and whether rock music may be played at home-school events. Some Evangelicals have even pulled their children out of home-school clubs and classes...
...growth of Vegas began, totally unregulated, all but unzoned, producing a monotonous checkerboard of shopping centers, low-rise apartment buildings, trailer parks and (of late) fenced and gated pseudo communities--with, in the middle, the glitz palaces devoted to gambling, or, as Nevada officialdom prefers to call it, "gaming," which sounds a little tonier...