Word: grewing
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...instance, Meltzer says, the last long-term plan, completed in 1989, included a goal of increasing the faculty from 64 to 74 total members. This goal was actually exceeded; the faculty grew from 64 to 79 in the 1990s...
Started by a Rhode Island School of Design student named Shepard Fairey, the campaign was originally a joke. Fairey plastered Providence with a sticker bearing a stylized Andre as a prank, and it grew from there--gaining curiosity, notoriety, converts, and a self-consciously totalitarian aesthetic (including lone block-typed words like "buy" and "obey...
...Hastert grew up hoisting 100-lb. seed bags onto his father's feed truck in Oswego, Ill. After graduating from Wheaton College, he started a 16-year career as a high school teacher and wrestling coach, experience he brought with him to Washington in 1986. "Coaching is something that gives you discipline," he says. "You have to spend a lot of time working on technique and bringing people together to get things done. That's the same thing I'm doing here." Hastert's let's-all-pull-together style proved popular with Republicans in the House. He rose...
...most absurd things in history went largely unquestioned, because people were already indoctrinated in them. It would be something like going to the Coliseum if you were a Roman. The fact that people were getting killed and eaten by lions didn't seem strange to you; you grew up with that. Hip-hop's language and messages are normal now to people, normal to someone my son's age. I remember a time before that came in. To me it's still hard for that to become normal, it's hard for me to accept that. It 's hard...
...Rose grew up in Mililani, Hawaii. He picked up football in the ninth grade, playing backup quarterback and defensive back. Although Rose won the starting job as junior, his high school experience was extremely uncommon for a Division I college starter...