Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...
...from-the-hip moralizing. His ratings since March for providing jobs, maintaining strong defenses and reducing unfairness each improved by 1%. One worrisome finding for the President: in March, 48% of those surveyed said their impressions of Carter had improved since the Inauguration; in the May sampling that figure shrank to 38%. At the same time, in March, only 6% said they had formed a worse impression of Carter since he took office; in May that figure grew...
Just behind the movers who carried out the Fords' personal belongings were household workers who put the presidential living quarters in perfect order for the Carters. With each day, the Ford presence shrank, until there was nothing left but their luggage and their bed. At breakfast with 75 aides and Cabinet members on the final morning, Ford circulated around the State Dining Room, thanking each person individually. When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller declared that "this is the proudest moment of our lives," a wave of applause washed over the room. Said Ford in response: "You all contributed...
After experiencing the coldest November in 66 years, Delaware endured a below-normal December and seemed headed for its most frigid January in history. The state's electricity consumption reached an alltime winter high. Home TV pictures shrank slightly in the Baltimore area when voltage was cut by 5% to conserve energy. Maryland woods were sprinkled with thousands of dead birds, which were unable to penetrate the icy snow to reach food. Stores were running out of rock salt to melt ice, but elderly women found a substitute to steady their steps on sidewalks: a scattering of kitty litter...
...jobs-Mobutu put $1 billion, much of it borrowed, into projects aimed at a vast expansion of copper exports. He gambled that increasing demand would keep copper prices rising-and he lost. During the world recession, copper prices plunged by 62%, and Zaïre's copper revenues shrank from $934 million in 1974 to less than $600 million...