Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confined to the dark hours. Both in broad daylight and the neon night, they flash the pink, orange and purple hot pants of the Aquarian Age, not to mention the high boots that were once a specialty of their profession and are now merely fashionable. In the spring they sprout from the sidewalks, squawking, cackling and ogling potential customers, fanning out from the bawd-walk they have made Times Square...
Whether these economic arguments are right or wrong, they seem to be raised effectively only when a particular tower offends the aesthetic sensibilities of a large number of citizens. New skyscrapers will continue to sprout in San Francisco; right now, the city has 23 more projected towers on the drawing boards. But the lesson for developers is clear: make sure that a skyscraper is designed to appeal to almost everyone...
...Pines also saw signs of progress. In Upper Silesia's grimy cities-Katowice, Swietochlowice, Chorzow-bulldozers are pushing slag heaps into craters caused by crumbling mines. Carefully planned parks and green belts are starting to sprout on the reclaimed land. Government officials now demand attention to "the human element" in all new projects-less noise, better designed apartments, conveniently located cultural facilities. More important, the causes of pollution are slowly being controlled. In the past four years, 14% of the mining and power industries' capital investment went for environmental safeguards. Compulsory filters in factory stacks have...
...another ominous move two years ago. Harvard Trust began to sprout penthouses and offices. Some sprouted on top of the bank's Harvard Square office and some were slipped into the less narrow reaches of Palmer Street. The Coop, meanwhile, was having babies all over the Boston area- little Coops appeared at M.I.T. the Business School and the Medical School...
...hand to distract him. In these monastic circumstances, he soon noticed an intriguing phenomenon: his beard was growing less rapidly than normal. Furthermore, on the day before each of his periodic returns to the mainland and reunions with a receptive female (also unidentified), his facial hair began to sprout at a prodigious rate. The implications were staggering. Could the mere thought of sex stimulate a darker 5 o'clock shadow...