Word: grewing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...since fourth grade, I adapted to it by choosing to wear a wig from sixth grade on. I have had varying amounts of hair over the past decade from none to a little to a fair amount. At the time, a wig seemed like the right solution, but I grew to wonder whether it was really the best choice. As a young girl it was easier not to have people stare at me on the street or whisper about my hairless presence. No ten-year-old wants that. But, as I grew more comfortable with my situation, I resented that...
...store's manager, however, said he was not sure how the tradition arose. Cafe owner Josephina Y. Perez grew up in Pamplona, Spain, but "it certainly isn't Pamplona tradition," Timberlake says. "I remember Josephina saying that there have always been female servers there...
Once upon a time, many businesses blamed a convenient scapegoat whenever profits went south--Mother Nature. Too hot. Too cold. Too rainy. Too sunny. When your product didn't sell, your losses grew and you lost market share, it was easier to point the finger at meteorology than management. But those days are over. Thanks to a blossoming of private firms that make sense of weather data in business terms, and a new financial tool called a weather derivative, a variety of industries are using forecasts to fine-tune corporate performance. "Weather may still be an act of God," says...
...could have incarnated Top Guns and baby Terminators, or starred in any of a zillion teen comedies. But he chose a tougher route to filling out his resume. And as it grew, in his seven major roles before Titanic, a portrait of the young artist began to emerge. So often DiCaprio played the emotional orphan, in a forlorn quest not for a father but for his own budding maturity--for a chance to become the man who needs no father...
...prime Ko Pha-Ngan waterfront were, at one point, the black sheep of their respective clans. Beaches were useless: the prime coconut-farming plots were inland. But with the arrival of the sand-loving farangs, a whole new economy emerged. Families like the Thuaycharoens, known locally as the Khaos, grew wealthy building bungalow complexes and beach bars. Mustachioed Mr. Khao is now governor of the whole province. Bespectacled Mrs. Khao manages their real estate empire from behind the counter of her two-aisle grocery store. The kids who buy rolling papers and beer from her would be bummed to know...