Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further-setting an auto-mileage goal of 33 m.p.g., for instance, and imposing a sales tax on energy-the nation could cut the growth of energy usage to zero by the year 2000, the report says. The foundation team calculates that even reducing the growth rate to 2% would shrink oil imports by 1985 to a mere 2 million...
...ballet. But Mary (not her real name) also has something that casts a shadow over her otherwise happy life. She is figuratively carrying a time bomb in her neck, never knowing whether-or when-it will go off. As an infant in Milwaukee, she received X-ray treatments to shrink her thymus gland, which doctors suspected was causing breathing problems. As a result of that medical vogue, she must now live with the knowledge that she is at least 20 times more likely than the average person to develop cancer of the thyroid, which is normally among the rarest...
Mary's predicament is not unique. From the 1930s into the early 1950s, doctors considered low doses of X ray a safe, effective way to shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting...
Colleges also expect to be hit hard as the baby-bust generation of the late '60s and early '70s begins to turn 18 in the 1980s. For economic and other reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings...
What about the armed forces? The pool of 18-to 19-year-old men will shrink from its present 4.1 million to 3.5 million by late 1984, reducing the number of those available for military service. The Defense Department has already increased the number of opportunities for women...