Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Danny hops from state to state and bed to bed, what he really needs is a mother. (All McMurtry gives him is a father who has just about disowned him, and a bunch of brothers who ignore him). We keep on waiting for Danny to check in at a shrink's office; he's actually too busy blaming everyone else for his social and romantic failures to try and analyze himself. He is too nice a person, too much a writer, he thinks, to be able to actually hurt anyone. Unfortunately, McMurtry thinks...
...body's own natural defenses into fighting cancer. In Mrs. Brown's case, doctors deliberately exposed her to attenuated tuberculosis bacilli, figuring that if they could make her body resist them, it might resist the cancer as well. The strategy worked. Shortly after treatment began, her lesions began to shrink and disappear. Today Mrs. Brown has only a few lumps on her chest. None of her doctors will say that she is cured, but all agree that without immunotherapy she probably would not be alive today...
Britain's Anthony Sampson forecasts a dramatically revised political map of Europe. It might shape up as "a world of multinational corporations, making a technological sweep through Europe as another Holy Roman Empire." Central governments would shrink; neglected provinces would return "to their historic roles as the heart of Europe. Alsace, as it once was, could become a separate entity equal to Paris." In this vision of provinces as power blocs, forgotten regions would become a kind of European Third World, playing off the central bureaucracy in Brussels against their own national capitals. The Scots, in fact, have already...
...That year he had sold his house in England, kept the proceeds in sterling, and took a loss. "For the past two years, the U.S. balance of payments figures have been my bedside reading," he says. Last week, as he interviewed financial experts, Beardwood also watched his dollar worth shrink in terms of Belgian francs...
...result is that within only a few generations, the American soil has bloomed as almost no one believed it could. Even though the U.S. farm population has continued to shrink from one out of every seven job holders to one in only 25 just since World War II-U.S. farmers are still able to produce a harvest out of all proportion to the nation's food needs. Whenever such surpluses hit the market, they obviously caused prices to shoot downward, often to the point of cruel losses to the men who grew the food. To this almost unique...