Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automakers are working on plans to shrink the size and weight of their models, while keeping the interiors as roomy as ever. Engines will be smaller, less powerful and more lean on fuel. The most gas-stingy cars on the U.S. market are imports: the Japanese Honda Civic and the Datsun B-210, which get 39 m.p.g. More light-weight metals will be used. Tires will be smaller, and front ends may be built of plastic. The myriad models that now confuse all but the most ardent car buff will be drastically trimmed-at a substantial savings in production costs...
...urged him on with barely repressed gesticulations; the special interest groups were plying the assemblage with their canned arguments during recesses outside the courtroom; the press section was swollen with national reporters and court artists, who all perhaps sought the glimmerings of sensationalism, and the defense did not shrink, of course from injecting the testimony with a little high drams...
...Cheap. Nine of the 14 directors who voted endorsed the proposition, but the deal must be approved this week by the shareholders. Two dissident directors mobilized stockholder opposition by spreading word that a big new stock issue would shrink earnings per share, depressing market values and paving the way for Khashoggi to scoop up more stock on the cheap. Khashoggi, in turn, filed suit against one director for alleged securities-law violations and protested that he was being victimized by a few "individual fanatics." As the vote approached, both the Saudi and his opponents tried to cool the atmosphere...
...because of President Ford's recent suggestion that the country may soon run into some economic problems. Will the folks who run the economy be equal to the occasion? These are the times that try rising young men's souls. The summer aide and the sunshine executive vice president shrink in this hour from the service of their country, and the aides and executive vice presidents of tomorrow will have to learn quickly, so as to take their falling comrades' places in time...
...since we have no surplus left to shrink...