Word: growing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...group of Freemasons marched from Georgetown to the site of what is now the White House and laid a cornerstone. That evening, though, by about the 11th toast--this one to "the fair daughters of America"--the congenial gathering of Freemasons at Georgetown's Fountain Inn had begun to grow a bit hazy about where they had laid that particular stone earlier...
...baby boomers enjoy their dotage. If everyone who qualifies for his subsidized savings accounts signs on for them, the program could consume $600 billion in the next decade - three times what Gore assumes. In one of his bolder debate lines, Bush warned that Gore is "going to grow the Federal Government in the largest increase since Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1965. We're talking about a massive government, folks. We're talking about adding to or increasing 200 new programs, 20,000 new bureaucrats...
...years to visit the northwestern state of Acre, the forest was burning again. Cardoso was forced to cancel his trip. Now Nepstad estimates that fully one-third of the remaining dense forest in the Brazilian Amazon will be vulnerable in the near future. The deforested area could grow big enough to swallow Alaska and California combined. And soon: during the past two decades, El Ni?os, which set the stage for fires, seem to have become stronger, more frequent and longer lasting. If this pattern holds, the next powerful El Ni?o is not far in the future...
Coop officials said they anticipate online sales to grow as the store is able to offer a widening assortment of books and non-insignia merchandise via the Internet. Efforts at co-branding with labels like Brooks Brothers and Tiffany's have also added to online growth...
...Given the mission of the Kennedy School and the globalization of the world, I would expect the Kennedy school will continue to grow," she says...