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After leading by a comfortable 43-27 margin, the Crimson ran into a cold spell from the floor and a tough Bruin press, and saw its lead shrink...
...shudders flashed down their backbones straight to their wallets. To help offset higher benefits and the new medicare program, the social security withholding nick in take-home pay went up from 3.625% to 4.2% on Jan. 1. As a result, a man earning $100 a week saw his paycheck shrink 58?. The $10,000-a-year man's first weekly take-home was down...
Almost nowhere did Skolnik play it safe. The dialogue is riddled with puns the author would have choked on. Lover's sighs become hyennaic giggles and Ko-ko, the Lord High Executioner, climbed half-way up the balcony before he told the irascible Katisha to "shrink not from...
...problem is that only about 10% of the facilities of Japan's ten biggest spinners consists of up-to-date, mechanized equipment. The main obstacle to modernization: as profits shrink, companies are finding it increasingly difficult to shoulder the high costs of automating their plants. Many are turning to synthetics, but in doing so must compete against the greater experience and entrenched position of existing synthetic-fiber producers...
...Rhodesia's Africans, UDI transformed this bleak prospect into a promising crisis. As a consequence of Smith's declaration, international sanctions will now shake Rhodesia's economy. Export markets will shrink; Rhodesian currency will be devalued; new investment will cease. Stagnation will threaten the good white life of swimming pools, big cars, and servants...