Word: grewing
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...Nothing specifically went wrong this weekend," freshman Dylan Patterson said. "They were simply more experienced than us and eight out of nine of their players are foreigners. They've grown up playing from a really young age and have a really big advantage there. When you compare someone who grew up playing in France with someone from the Bronx, there's a big difference...
Reinert is--or more accurately was--the typical American small-town, small-business success story. He grew up in LaPorte, Ind., and attended Western Kentucky University before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1975. He and his wife, whom he met during his Army stint in Germany, started their wholesale bath-supplies business in 1994 out of the family garage in Summerville, S.C., a pine tree-studded bedroom community of Charleston. "We began very meagerly," says Reinert. "We didn't have one account." By knocking on doors, attending an endless parade of trade shows and selecting the right representatives, they...
Chiquita nevertheless cracked the British market through its ownership of a British subsidiary, Fyffes Ltd., which grew bananas in the former British colonies. British consumers paid a relatively high price for those bananas, but Chiquita's margin from this trade was still small compared with the profits from its efficient plantations in Latin America. By 1986, as the European Union began to take shape, Chiquita executives hoped the restrictions would be lifted and its low-cost bananas could take over the market. So Chiquita sold off its Fyffes subsidiary...
...last week said that the boys could not be hit by bullets and that people who walked with them were immune from harm. They cited cases of followers who stepped on land mines that failed to detonate. "The twins have special powers," asserts Plee, 20, a Karen woman who grew up in Johnny and Luther's village. She has taken refuge in Thailand, but still occasionally sees the twins. "I am sure they won't be killed in battle," she says. "They are able to control a large number of people, so that's why I believe in them...
...Commerce Department report released on Friday amounts to an impressive display of resilience. Business activity grew at a breakneck rate of 5.8% in the final three months of the year, faster than most experts had predicted. The surge in output lifted 1999's total gross domestic product 4%. That's the third year in a row the economy grew at that rate or better, a feat last accomplished in the late 1970s. When this expansion passes the February milepost, it will become the longest in American history--107 months...