Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...entire organization grew out of one book-mobile turned mobile medical van, which made regular stops anywhere homeless youths were known to congregate. The van was the first of its kind, and its success inspired activists nationwide to follow suit...
...weeks after the acquittal of the four NYPD officers who killed Amadou Diallo after mistaking his black wallet for a gun, Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian security guard, was killed while scuffling with undercover police posing as drug buyers. These are the facts on which all sides can agree: Dorismond grew indignant when the apparent strangers assumed he possessed drugs, a fight ensued and Officer Vasquez's gun was discharged into his chest, killing...
...mother was 41 years old. His two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels and the occasional...
...expansion is a bit of a paper tiger. The economy grew 4.1% last year and even faster in 1998, yet aside from oil prices there has been no inflation to speak of. Meanwhile, amid all the angst about overheating, there are signs of a slowdown, most noticeably in the crucial housing sector. The dollar is in fine shape. And while rising oil prices have skewed the Consumer Price Index to a three-year high, the core rate is up a very modest 2.1% for the past 12 months...
...every child's education. In New York City an organization called 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care has been swamped with requests for survival workshops, conducted in schools and community organizations. More than 5,000 people, mostly youth, have attended so far. In Chicago, Michael Owens, 17, grew up amid the gangs and drugs of the Englewood neighborhood and had a typical attitude toward the police. Says he: "The decision to make when you saw the police was hope for the best or run." But in high school he formed the Boys & Girls Clubs' YouthNet program, which brings kids...