Competition for investor favor grew keener.
With little progress in the initial phase of talks, the possibility of an eventual solution imposed by the international community — in the Albanians' favor — grows more likely.
Up to now, those who favor growing clivias have learned that bloom is promoted by allowing the plants to rest, without water, for several months.
"They are very happy from mid-Connecticut to down South," said Mike D. Johnson, owner of the Summer Hill Nursery of Madison, who as a favor grew about 25 of the now four-foot saplings from six-inch-long branch cuttings starting in the summer of 1999.
For periodical cicadas (usually pronounced sih-KAY-duhz), evolution favors growing up in sync.
Sando pointedly said he favored growing disappearing foods over getting together to talk about them at fund-raisers.
Or should consumers favor flowers grown locally, not flown or trucked over long distances?
"I'm in favor of growing the economy, which is absolutely necessary if we are to reduce our deficit over time," Dr. Frist said.
Littleton, Colo., a suburb of Denver, has pioneered an "economic gardening" approach that rejects a "hunting" model in favor of growing its own small businesses, providing supportive services and planning assistance.
WASHINGTON — Caller ID, Do Not Call registries, telephone number blocking — all entered the arsenal of consumer weapons against telemarketers to great acclaim, only to fall from favor as growing numbers of cold-calling solicitors found ways around them.
