Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Flimflam. The problem pressing upon the Administration is not how to shrink total spending, but how to keep it from ballooning. Reported Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Percival F. Brundage in a joint statement last week: With fiscal 1958 only three months old, the Administration's spending estimate has edged up from $71.8 billion to $72 billion since the President submitted his budget to Congress last January. With the Government's income estimate for the year down $100 million (principally because of lower business profits), the 1958 surplus shapes up as $1.5 billion instead...
...Killed Dylan? The first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from...
Taking over the Federal Government after two decades of New Deal and Fair Deal, the new Republican Administration expected in January 1953 that businesslike management of the nation's affairs would shrink the swollen federal payroll. But last week Congress' Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures reported that in fiscal 1957 the executive branch's civilian payroll crept up to an alltime peak of $11 billion, more than $1 billion above the 1952 level...
...elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public panoply, the peculiar rites and duties of the proletarian potentates who parade about holding durbars in subject states like 19th century monarchs, while talking over their shoulders to the press like 20th century pols. Yet the world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy...
...workers from the total 800,000. Since the industry has a high labor turnover, much of this cut will be accomplished simply by not replacing workers who quit. By year's end Douglas will reduce its 76,000-man force by 8,000, and Lockheed will shrink its 60,000-man force by 5,000. North American Aviation, which laid off 7.300 workers after its Navaho missile was washed out last month, will drop another 4,700. Boeing will pare its 100,000-man force by about 10,000, but last week it resumed advertising for skilled and semiskilled...