Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seferis breathed desolation everywhere in Turkey. As he traveled towards Smyrna, the landscape grew familiar but his anticipation was tempered with foreboding. The changes Turkish soldiers couldn't rend, time worked more subtly and bewilderingly--it even shrunk the walls and roads. He remembered that...
...return to the policy of allowing thrift institutions to pay more interest than commercial banks on term deposits. Since the policy was dropped in July 1973, S and L deposits have shrunk 43%, and savings-bank deposits...
Nixon's world has shrunk almost to himself, his family and a handful of aides. Cabinet officers and agency heads are allowed in when business demands entry. But there is no camaraderie. In the old days somebody like John Connally could roar and swear at the enemies and tell a few stories to perk up the President. Connally has his own problems now. There was no meeting with the congressional leadership last week. A session with the economic advisers was postponed, then canceled. The bulletin board on which the President's and Mrs. Nixon's schedules...
...country. Charles W. Colson, in a memo about opinion-manipulating, quoted a pollster's theory that "50% of the American people at least will always believe what any President tells them because they want to believe what any President tells them." The percentage who do today has shrunk in half. But can it be that Nixon's most recent low of 24% suggests a permanent core of people who believe in "my President, right or wrong...
...Administration has been relying on the Federal Reserve Board to curb demand by keeping a firm rein on money supply. The rate of money expansion has shrunk from about 12% in February and March to less than 7% in the second quarter. That policy has made it too costly for many companies to raise money in the long-term bond markets and virtually dried up capital in the stock market. It has also hammered the housing industry into its worst condition since the end of World...