Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Said one banker: "No one who sold sterling believed that the story was true. They sold because they were afraid someone else would believe it." Even the rare bit of good British economic news cannot soothe these jitters. On Oct. 26 the British government reported that unemployment in September shrank by 78,000, to a total of 1,377,110. The news brought no recovery in the price of the pound...
...sales. A sampling of college students by Standard & Poor's yielded an even higher estimate: 450. The actual figure is below 50 -and the overall trend has been downward. According to a FORTUNE survey, the 1975 median profit margin of the nation's 500 largest industrial corporations shrank to 3.9% of sales. That was the thinnest margin in 17 years...
...quarter, Japan's output of goods and services rose 3.5% from late 1975. That was far behind the U.S. performance of 8.7%. But it was ahead of last year's 3.1% increase and even better hi comparison with the grim year of 1974, when real G.N.P. actually shrank by 1.2% and many companies were driven toward bankruptcy. Now corporate earnings are once again on the rise. Official unemployment -which never got much above 2% of the work force-and inflation have abated. The Japanese are responding by buying apparel, leisure equipment, vacations and houses...
PATTI COMES IN with long thin teardrop legs stuffed into jeans which are stuffed into boots. Wisecracking and cursing and strutting and smiling, she is not playing the sensitive artist. Davis had said he wouldn't give her the full promo treatment if she shrank from stuff like this. She is determined to have a good time. She says it's her birthday, and if true, she shares it with Richard Nixon...
Alumni reaction to their role is critical to the plan. Last year, when Harvard's minority applicant pool shrank by 24 per cent, some admissions officials charged that alumni's lack of involvement, or outright discouragement of candidates, had played a large part in the drop...