Word: shrink
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...former brother-in-law, Robert McCandless, 35. Dean and McCandless both married and divorced daughters of the late Democratic Senator Thomas Hennings, and McCandless has been a special counsel to the Democratic Party as well as a campaign aide to Hubert Humphrey. With that background McCandless would hardly shrink from a head-on attack against the Republican Administration. He is currently said to be concentrating on persuading federal prosecutors to grant Dean full immunity in return for his testimony about the involvement of others...
...works on could hinge on a hideous crime committed a generation before, in the presence of a tiny child, who blocks the memory from his consciousness and thus, grown to adulthood, is a psychological time bomb? Wouldn't it be a good idea for Archer to see a shrink...
Most Americans cannot yet get excited about that problem, but many of them have already seen the effects of the growing energy shortage. During the past three summers, there have been scattered brownouts across the nation. These cutbacks on voltage, designed to preserve overloaded generators, caused TV pictures to shrink, lights to dim and air conditioners to slow down. Electric utilities in major cities, which until a few years ago urged their customers to use more electricity, now have changed their line. The new theme, typified by New York City's Consolidated Edison Co., is "Save a watt...
Ironically, if the new rules do prompt a flood of U.S. investment, the outflow will temporarily worsen the enormous American balance of payments deficit with Japan. Profits from the investments, however, eventually would shrink the deficit again. In any case, the liberalization is welcome, and should help soothe the often acrimonious relations between the two mightiest economies in the non-Communist world. It will constitute a long-overdue recognition of reality: Japan's economy has grown far too powerful either to need or deserve protection...
While other installations shrink or disappear, the San Diego Navy Base will expand. It will become in fact the largest U.S. Navy port, reflecting the Pentagon's decision to locate on the Pacific Coast the nation's prime naval facilities. Thirty-one ships will be transferred to San Diego, bringing along 12,000 crewmen and adding as much as $100 million a year to the Navy payroll. Last year the Navy contributed $1.2 billion to the economy of the San Diego area. The expansion is expected to add $56.5 million a year in retail sales alone; some...