Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be seeking the same information. He sent his request to TRW, one of the companies that compile credit histories, along with a $16 fee. While waiting for the copy, Richard, who strikes most of us as about as likely to get into credit trouble as he is to sprout wings and soar from his 23rd-floor-office window, combed through his memory for any instances of financial delinquency. "I once borrowed $25 from a friend in high school," he recalls. "But I was pretty sure I had paid it back before too long...
Mathers estimates that at one time there were between 125 and 150 homestead families on his 50,000-acre spread, each trying to live with a few cows and sheep and harboring vain hopes that crops that sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants...
...cubic meters (431,640 cu. yds.) of concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including nearly 5,000 electromagnets, four particle detectors weighing more than 3,000 tons each, 160 computers and 6,600 km (4,000 miles) of electrical cables. Tangles of brightly colored wires sprout everywhere, linking equipment together in a pattern so complicated, it seems that no one could possibly understand or operate the device. In fact, it takes the combined efforts of literally hundreds of Ph.D.s to run a single experiment...