Word: shrinkly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Taking over the Federal Government after two decades of New Deal and Fair Deal, the new Republican Administration expected in January 1953 that businesslike management of the nation's affairs would shrink the swollen federal payroll. But last week Congress' Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures reported that in fiscal 1957 the executive branch's civilian payroll crept up to an alltime peak of $11 billion, more than $1 billion above the 1952 level...
...workers from the total 800,000. Since the industry has a high labor turnover, much of this cut will be accomplished simply by not replacing workers who quit. By year's end Douglas will reduce its 76,000-man force by 8,000, and Lockheed will shrink its 60,000-man force by 5,000. North American Aviation, which laid off 7.300 workers after its Navaho missile was washed out last month, will drop another 4,700. Boeing will pare its 100,000-man force by about 10,000, but last week it resumed advertising for skilled and semiskilled...
...civilization which has brought forth the methods of the common law and developed the bill of rights should not shrink from this new command from a sorely troubled humanity. Creating a system of law for the nations of the world should not be beyond its competence. That should not be more difficult than the development of the rights of man to justice under law. In addition, today, we have a new factor to help in the acceptance of such a plan-a compulsion to try to preserve life itself which is a force that will not be denied. Certainly...
...remedy was obvious. Sam Engelhardt, taking a look at Tuskegee's square-mile area, noted that most of the city's Negroes live in the northwest quadrant near the institute or to the south of it. The remedy, which he proposed to the state legislature this spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters to nine. Both houses unanimously passed Engelhardt's gerrymander bill, sent it on to Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...
Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...