Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after taking office, Miller asserted openly that Carter should declare inflation to be the nation's No. 1 economic problem. The President did, a month later. Miller publicly advised Carter to delay the $25 billion tax cut that the President had proposed to take effect Oct. 1, and to shrink the budget deficit. Carter has agreed to make the tax reduction effective Jan. 1, and to squeeze it down to $15 billion. That and other actions, according to Administration forecasts announced last week, are supposed to lower the budget deficit for fiscal 1979 from the $60.6 billion that Carter...
...wake of what he wrought, Jarvis left pain as well as tax relief. California officials faced some brutal choices as they scrambled to figure out how to live with budgets now scheduled to shrink significantly with the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1, when Proposition 13 takes effect (unless one of the five court challenges that have already been made proves successful...
...prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied services. The cost of mailing a letter inside France went up from 22? to 26?, and this week premium gasoline will rise 10.7%, to $2.20 per gal. By charging more for services, Barre hopes to shrink the government's inflationary $4.3 billion budget deficit...
...course, these three isolated events do not tell the whole story of the past year at Harvard. Libraries were still budy, pre-meds still tuned into the organic joys and tribulations of Chem 20, students still managed to shrink into the monolithic, protective background of mass-production academia. It would be wrong to devise some theory of mass student activism to describe life at Harvard--the changes of the past year were anything but revolutionary. They were, instead, just beginnings, intriguing shifts in direction of momentum, little crevices in the facade of a community grown comfortable with statics. What...
...result, the glacier's front end could shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...