Word: shrunk
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...tripled in a decade. Suburban residential property has been gaining in value by some 8% a year. The average price of the land under a house with a Federal Housing Administration-insured mortgage is now $5,300, up about 80% since 1963, while the average plot size has shrunk from about 11,000 sq. ft. in 1965 to 7,000 sq. ft. Farm land has almost doubled in value since 1963, to an average $247 per acre. In the past ten years, the consumer price index has risen only about...
Recently, however, Arab options have shrunk all round. Israel has undeniably achieved military and political supremacy. Egypt's maneuvering has been drastically cut by U.S.-Soviet detente. Sadat gambled that the U.S. would make concessions to the Arabs in its Middle East policy when he kicked the Russians out last year. He lost that gamble. Deciding to place emphasis on Arab self-reliance, he traveled to Saudi Arabia late last month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking...
...U.F.W. called a strike last April, but the Teamsters only intensified their own recruitment efforts. Today, Chavez's union has only twelve contracts; its membership has shrunk from 40,000 to 6,500. By court order, police kept pickets 100 ft. apart, and when the pickets disobeyed, 3,000 of them, including 76 Roman Catholic priests and nuns, were swept off to jail. Now the union has run out of money, including a $1.6 million strike fund provided...
...Apollo command ship with the 230-nautical-mile-high laboratory within the prescribed five revolutions of the earth, their lift-off cannot be delayed more than ten minutes. Otherwise, the blast-off will have to be postponed until the next day. But by then the launch "window" will, have shrunk to a mere two minutes, and it will take the astronauts two more revolutions to reach the laboratory...
...number have reduced executive salaries. No fewer than 68 firms are on the New York Stock Exchange's "warning list" because they are operating at a loss. For this year's first quarter Merrill Lynch's revenues were down 8%, and profits 53%; its stock has shrunk this year from 32¾% to last week...