Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book exudes freely without quite giving of itself and hints at cloudy meanings without any apparent obligation to follow through on them. The Blood Oranges, like anything wholly out of time, can never grow. Like ripe fruit and sweet erotic fiction (which it is), it can only shrink and fade when we finally flee Illyria (which we must) and retreat into the more familiar haunts of life itself...
Unhappily, modern history tells us that we live peacefully only when we share a common fear. The psychological effect of that first intergalactic greeting will be an everlasting sword of Damocles for us all. Only then will our differences shrink to petty insignificance, and the global peace that eludes us will be ours at last...
...hardly a new thought that a small car will crumple more easily in a crash than a big auto, but just how much does the safety risk grow as cars shrink? To find out, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group financed by auto insurers, ran a series of head-on test crashes at 40 to 50 m.p.h. Each collision pitted a small car against a larger model produced by the same U.S. manufacturer: a Chevrolet Vega against an Impala, a Ford Pinto against a Galaxie, a Dodge Colt against a Plymouth Fury, an American Motors Gremlin against...
...human being"--it's just a little too narrow right now. Harvard and MIT should both be rezoned so that they can't build anything more and the city should take by public domain any housing that can't be called part of the campus. If they won't shrink we ought to cut their arms...
What makes the economists' forecast for 1972 so encouraging is the amount of real, noninflationary growth. Heller expects that the rate of real growth will jump to 6¼%; meanwhile, the inflation rate will shrink from this year's 4.7% to 3%. If those results are achieved, the U.S. economy will expand faster next year than at any time since the mid-'60s. One bread-and-butter result, predict Heller, Grove and Eckstein, will be a reduction in the unemployment rate from the current...