Word: shrinkings
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...reductions are only part of a year-old effort to shrink overhead at Merrill Lynch, which is considered one of the best-managed firms in the business. Merrill Lynch has reduced its payroll by more than 500, primarily through attrition, limited many of its brokers to a single telephone, and put restrictions on the use of first-class mail, messenger services and copying machines...
...Yugoslavs and Italians) will swell to nearly 3,300,000 as German manufacturers rely more heavily on low-paid foreign help to raise their productivity. In German plants, productivity will rise by a steady 5% a year (the long-term U.S. average is 3.1%). The German work week will shrink from 42 to 38 hours...
...dippy friend and downers prescribed by her disastrous psychiatrist. In the supermarket she takes half an hour to decide whether to buy milk by the quart or half-gallon. She scrubs her apartment a lot. In the end, she has the baby, dumps the pills and ditches the shrink; and at fadeout she seems prepared to live happily ever after...
...former brother-in-law, Robert McCandless, 35. Dean and McCandless both married and divorced daughters of the late Democratic Senator Thomas Hennings, and McCandless has been a special counsel to the Democratic Party as well as a campaign aide to Hubert Humphrey. With that background McCandless would hardly shrink from a head-on attack against the Republican Administration. He is currently said to be concentrating on persuading federal prosecutors to grant Dean full immunity in return for his testimony about the involvement of others...
...works on could hinge on a hideous crime committed a generation before, in the presence of a tiny child, who blocks the memory from his consciousness and thus, grown to adulthood, is a psychological time bomb? Wouldn't it be a good idea for Archer to see a shrink...