Word: growing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Free Press, with my brother at the helm, rode the ups and downs of the postwar world. For a while it looked as if Greenfield would grow dramatically. New houses went up by the score. Cattle and hog prices climbed. Grain prices soared as a hungry world sought aid. Chemical fertilizers hyped the yields. New machines snorted through the thick fields. Norman Lear, the movie producer, came around in 1969 to use the Greenfield square as a setting for his film Cold Turkey. The Free Press went Hollywood with relish, interviewing Bob Newhart, Dick Van Dyke and Tom Poston. That...
Braniff's bullish executives had hoped to find a niche for the midsize airline by developing a hub at the Kansas City airport, an opening that was created by a retrenchment at bankrupt Eastern Airlines. But Braniff's business failed to grow fast enough to support its debt payments. When a recent bridge financing deal for $75 million fell through, Braniff was strapped for cash. The bankrupt airline, which has laid off 2,800 of its 4,800 employees, hopes to rebuild slowly...
...Cubs warmed the hearts of baseball purists, something will happen to three of these teams over the next few weeks that will cause them to once again be branded as losers and chokers. Their accomplishments of 1989 will be forgotten. Their fans' laundry list of heartbreaking defeats will grow still longer...
...deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities. Sitting in his huge office and guzzling a glass of the natural mineral water famous in the area, Stengach pours out his complaints. Says he: "We thought we would give him land to grow whatever he wanted. We wanted him to bring his own grain, tractors, herbicides and combines, so he could show us what can be done. As it turns out, he's a bezdelnik" -- the Russian word for loafer...
...private farmers are given freedom of choice, they'll develop a productive agriculture that fits their circumstances." A few hundred feet from the Dulls' house are two privately run greenhouses, set up by a five-man rental group that recently entered into an agreement with the kolkhoz to grow cucumbers and tomatoes. Ralph is so proud of the renters that he has practically adopted all of them...