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...drop in the heavy trading volume that had swamped brokerage-house clerical staffs. Average daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange fell 24.5% to 9,639,118 shares, as against 12,764,872 shares during the first three weeks of 1968. On the American Stock Exchange, volume shrank by nearly 50%, from 8,039,660 shares a day to a mere...
Winnipeg's early advantage shrank slowly, and by the three quarter mark, Canada found itself at a length disadvantage. Now it was the Harvards who had to hold on, and they did, easily, to win in the time of seven minutes flat...
Under U.S. protection, Western Europe built back to prosperity, and Japan became the first nonwhite nation with an industrialized economy. Beyond the Iron Curtain, Russia and China reconstructed their own bases of power. As others grew, the relative power of the U.S. inevitably shrank. In two decades, its share of the world's income dropped to one-third, its steel production fell from three-fifths to onequarter, its great gold stock melted as the balance of payments shifted. And most significantly, it lost its unique position as the world's only nuclear nation...
...businessmen almost everywhere, 1967 was a year of rising anxiety about strikes and riots, war and other tensions, inflation and monetary strains. In many countries, such problems thwarted or threatened economic gains by damaging everything from domestic output to world trade, whose growth shrank to a 7% rate from the 9% of a year ago. Despite all that, it was far from being a bad year for business. The U.S. continued to be prosperous; its economy, the abundance of which mankind holds in awe and envy, simply fell short of optimistic expectations. Western Europe experienced its slowest economic growth...
...stand a quarter-mile trundle to the regular radiation treatment center. At week's end, when his white-blood-cell count rose, the doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...