Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goods because Americans will have to pay more dollars for the things they import. In the short run, however, countries such as Germany and Japan, which now hold $27 billion as part of their national reserves, will take a beating. The value of their dollar assets is expected to shrink, perhaps by as much as 12% to 15%, as the prices of their own currencies rise. The only way foreign holders of dollars will be able to get full value for them is by spending them for American goods or services, or investing in U.S. securities...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...
...second year of $3,800,000, of which roughly a third is earmarked for membership expansion. Aided by word-of-mouth recruitment, which already accounts for 25% of the organization's new members, the rolls could swell to more than 300,000 by next year. They could also shrink, and in that sense Common Cause faces a continued test. Says Gardner: "Our record is fairly well known now. A year ago, a membership prospect got a blueprint. Now he gets a track record...
Like many rock concerts, Harry Kellerman has about 15 minutes of entertainment and hours to kill. Accordingly, Director Ulu Grosbard shot endless footage of the sidewalks of New York City, a view of the city from the air, and Georgie and his shrink schussing downhill in the snow. The pictorial trickery cannot disguise the vapidity of the film...
...Carswell episode was a trauma in decision making. Senators fear the absence of politics. They fear a situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...