Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...
...most salient fact about the newest wave of tennis players is that more than half of them are women, and the name of the game that has done most to turn the simple teaching pro into a combined guru, shrink, social worker, friend and sounding board is mixed doubles. Of course, mixed doubles?a man and a woman partnered against another man and woman team?has always been part of the game of tennis. And much of U.S. tennis, whether singles or doubles, is still largely played men v. men, women v. women. But in monosex tennis, the stresses...
...York Times/CBS survey of voters in Ohio and California and a Times survey of New Jersey voters showed that an astonishing 35% of Reagan and Ford supporters plan to vote for Carter if their own favorite fails to win the G.O.P. nomination. This percentage would seem certain to shrink as passions cool following the nomination...
Knudsen still hopes to persuade the banks to pump fresh money into his company. Meanwhile, he is trying to keep White rolling by cutting $38 million this year from operating costs. Among other things, he plans to shrink administrative and sales staffs and close a research-and-development facility. Even if White Motor goes under, there are rumors that several corporations might buy up pieces of the company, if the price were right. But for the moment, both Knudsen's and White's prospects look exceedingly black...
...government could try to shrink the value of the mark, by having the Bundesbank sell deutsche marks for other currencies. But with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt running for re-election in October, such a move is improbable: it would irritate voters by reducing their ability to buy foreign goods and add to European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with...