Word: shrank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, partly because of the manipulations of robber barons who controlled it in the bad old days, the line is often cited as having more debt per mile than any other U.S. railroad. Last year Erie persuaded its creditors to stretch out some debt payments. Its deficit shrank from $8.9 million in 1970 to $2.1 million last year, but losses mounted again this year due to sluggish steel shipments. Through a series of subsidiaries, Erie is controlled by the wealthy Norfolk and Western Railway. Investors are now wondering what will happen to another line controlled...
...Shawn and his magazine. Though shallow and unfair, Wolfe's article generated talk and crystallized the notion that The New Yorker had become musty and irrelevant. Then, in the late '60s, like other magazines, it began experiencing a money crunch. It continued to be profitable, but income shrank dramatically...
...fiscal 1973 that is "balanced" only by counting in nearly $800 million of new state and federal aid that it is highly questionable the city will get. The budget gap would be even larger without "economies" that have grievously hurt the quality of life. A prohibition on hiring shrank the city's police force by 800 cops last year, despite a level of street crime that makes many New Yorkers barricade themselves in their apartments after sundown. At the overcrowded Morrisania City Hospital in The Bronx, a new obstetrics wing is kept locked because there is no money to hire...
...execution in the U.S. This unofficial moratorium, which currently affects 696 prisoners, is the result of an intricately planned campaign that used every possible legal tactic or argument. Even before that, however, the number of executions had been decreasing markedly. From a 1935 high of 199, the annual total shrank to 76 in 1955, 56 in 1960 and two in 1967, when the moratorium began. Meanwhile, Great Britain has joined a worldwide trend toward abolition, and Canada has followed suit (except for killers of on-duty policemen and prison guards) as a five-year experiment...
Dillon Field House was laundering over 4000 towels a day at the time, as the existing athletic program gave way to an intensified effort at civilian fitness and military drill. Simultaneously, actual civilian enrollment in the University shrank to less than 1000 as 5000 servicemen enrolled in a panoply of 13 different on-campus military programs. Even the CRIMSON shut up for a moment as its editors suspended publication in favor of printing a non-editorializing, twice-weekly-sheet unimaginatively titled the Harvard Service News...