Word: shrinkly
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...current fiscal year, when federal spending may well work out to total more than Nixon's hoped-for ceiling of $192.9 billion. The fat $5.8 billion surplus that the Administration once so cheerily anticipated will probably get much skinnier as the economy slows down and tax collections shrink with it. Nixon damned the Democratic-controlled Congress for putting his surplus in peril. "In the very session when the Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, it increased spending by $3 billion more than I recommended," he said...
...sexual fantasies and record the results with a concealed movie camera which films all the escapades which occur in his living room. He leaves his wife, drops his patients, and sets himself up as a photographer to lure women. The movie the viewer sees is the one which the shrink makes. It documents his disintegration...
...figure of the West in this country: the psychiatrist. In theory this could have been one of the movie's strong points: how the man's highly developed self-consciousness affected the way he lived, etc. In practice, however, Torn is unable to convince you that he is a shrink at all, let alone that any psychiatrist would be motivated to scale the heights of promiscuity in such...
...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...
...argues that the board's fallible members frequently misjudge how much to expand or shrink the money supply, and that their actions often exaggerate the swings of an economy that they are supposed to stabilize...