Word: shrink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VERY FEW ROCK ALBUMS being cut these days will ever be worth a buck in a used record store five years from now. They come sealed and shrink-wrapped with all the Hollywood tack your subconscious can handle. They all inevitably get billed as "masterpieces" or "significant works" by their publishers and some suspiciously sympathetic reviewers--the music in the grooves is a mere excuse to sell the package...
Cutting the federal budget is an alternative that Washington is not yet vigorously pursuing; right now all the pressures are to add a billion here and there. Nonetheless, there are ideas, of widely varying reasonableness. Some conservatives would shrink foreign aid, welfare, Social Security benefits. Alan Greenspan suggests reducing expenditures for public service employment of the jobless, a most dubious economy. Rudolph Penner, director of tax policy studies of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, more sensibly would pare the roughly $68 billion in federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments, many of which...
...These...(he grimaced and searched the highway in front of him for words)...lunatics--they hired a shrink. They made us sit around in a circle and hold hands and tell each other what our problems were on the mound...so I said, "Fuck this, you're all crazy' and I left...
Governors and mayors who might be embarrassed by big surpluses can take some ironic comfort in the thought that they will soon be dwindling. Higher spending and a probable slower rate of growth in the economy late this year will shrink the aggregate state-city surplus to somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion in 1978. That is a tidy sum, but it gives officials less reason to keep federal deficits high...
...value against the West German mark, VW's U.S. prices went up relentlessly. The average price of all Volkswagen models sold in the U.S. climbed almost 14% last year alone. VW, whose famous Beetle was once the top-selling U.S. import, saw its share of the U.S. market shrink from 6.8% in 1970 to about...