Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...boys of inner-city Baltimore don't get to be boys for long. Brandon Harlee was two years old, in his mother's arms, when his father shot her, leaving her legs paralyzed. His dad left the family, and Brandon grew up in a neighborhood rife with drugs and gangs, where even little kids learn to act tough. By sixth grade, Brandon was becoming too much for his mom - and his school - to handle. Though he showed promise on aptitude tests, he scored Ds and Fs in his classes and was constantly in trouble for fighting with other students...
...wardrobe closet, but as he tweaked his own uniform he was also copying Gore in other ways, by showing himself to be a tireless advocate for the working man. Describing the tax advantages that his plan would bring to the Tank family sitting in the front row, Bush grew increasingly animated. "When you hear the talk about the rich and the powerful, I want you all to remember the Tanks," he said before announcing the roughly $1,800 more dollars the family would reap under his plan. "Now you tell me who stands on the side of the working families...
...program at Stanford also grew out of discussions sparked by former Stanford University President Gerhard S. Casper about undergraduate education...
...many Americans, and it is usually a positive one. To say that does not demean atheists, or imply that one cannot be moral without religion. It is like saying that caring parents or close friends play a large positive role in the lives of many Americans. A person who grew up without either can still become a productive, happy and gentle member of society. By the same token, many people who had both kind parents and close friends will fail the test of life...
...last half century, as universities got bigger, fund-raising became more important and campuses grew more politicized, the university presidency has transformed from an easy job for the tweed-wearing academic into a high-powered position for the smooth-talking politician-fundraiser...