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growing pains

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growing pains

the problems or difficulties of a new organization or activity. Even highly successful businesses will have experienced growing pains in the early days.

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Would God that I could bear for her those growing pains of the heart The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context More results

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