Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week and regaled his colleagues with an off-key rendition of After You've Gone. The performance was a bittersweet joke, for members of New York's Typographical Union No. 6 were voting, with white marbles or black, on an innovative eleven-year contract that will radically shrink one of the nation's oldest and most powerful craft union locals. The white marbles outnumbered the black by an overwhelming 1,009 to 41, thus giving the New York Times and the Daily News the right to fully automate their production systems. In return, the 1,400 regular...
...have already lost 75% of the 235 million bu. of corn they expected. Many farmers are holding tight to whatever grain they have, and a lack of feed for Nebraska's record 7.5 million head of cattle is hurting ranchers. In all, Nebraska's farm income could shrink by $2 billion this year. Losses for Iowa and Kansas are conservatively estimated at $3 billion...
...peaches that sells for 40? to 60? at the retail level. Farmers charge that the cost of a tractor less than 30 years ago was equivalent to the selling price of six hogs; now it equals 100. The purchasing power of the French peasant, it is estimated, will shrink 17% this year alone-while government policy permits massive imports of competing foreign meats, fruits and vegetables...
John Jay Iselin, 40. As federal and foundation support for public television continues to shrink, the president of the Manhattan-based Educational Broadcasting Corporation and boss of its lively station, WNET (Channel 13), is forced to scramble for funds to keep his operations going. His innovative approach to programming has brought viewers The American Family and the Theater in America series, VD Blues and ballet, movie classics and public affairs programs. By stationing fund raisers in front of elegant stores like Tiffany's, he has helped boost the number of contributors to Channel 13 from...
...committee, along with Slingerland and Evans, proposed a new structure for the Expos program. They were low on money and overburdened with large classes, so they arrived at an obvious conclusion: cut back the number of students in Expos, and the money will go around better as class sizes shrink. They proposed an exemption from Expos for students with SAT and advanced placement scores above a cutoff level...