Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with this panegyric is all the lumpy and inconvenient facts, such as the crumbling U.S. infrastructure and the declining competitiveness of American corporations, that Bartley tries to dismiss. Did the budget deficit swell menacingly in the '80s, for example? No problem! Japan and Germany had lots of red ink too, and "advanced" economists doubt that deficits even matter. Did the plight of the poor worsen? Not really, Bartley argues. The data for low-income households overstate the extent of poverty by counting many retired people -- who often own their own homes and have plenty of capital -- along with college...
...interest, rent and charitable contributions -- combined with a 13% national sales tax on goods and services has found so much resonance in the current campaign. But the Brown plan is not well thought out. It would raise taxes on the working poor, cut taxes on the wealthy and further swell the budget deficit. It is more simpleminded than simple, less a plan than a slogan...
Today more than 7 million Americans have been treated for cancer and survived, a number that is expected to swell to 10 million by the turn of the century. Three million have been cancer-free for at least five years, a time marker many cancer researchers consider an important milestone on the road to a complete "cure." Yet as a growing literature of articles and books by cancer survivors makes clear, the challenges these people face after the treatment is over are nearly as great as those posed by the disease...
...animals, a region at the front of the organ controls sexual function and is somewhat larger in males than in females. But its size need not remain constant. Studies of tropical fish by Stanford University neurobiologist Russell Fernald reveal that certain cells in this tiny region of the brain swell markedly in an individual male whenever he comes to dominate a school. Unfortunately for the piscine pasha, the cells will also shrink if he loses control of his harem to another male...
...turn his Flying D ranch near Bozeman into what amounts to a privately owned national park: he has sold all the cattle, uprooted miles of barbed-wire fence, let pastures of hay and alfalfa return to native grasses and started raising a herd of buffalo he hopes will swell...