Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really believe in individual service to the community. My gripe with the liberal today is that he has an empathy for the disadvantaged that will not translate itself into action. He won't get his hands dirty. He wants to impose a solution." Politically, too, Brock has not shrunk from hard work. He was the first Republican in 42 years to win in his district...
...Chrysler history and promise enough profit to haul the corporation into the black for the whole year. The company is now covering its costs well enough to make heavy repayments of short-term debt without drawing on its new lines of bank credit. Debt repayable within a year has shrunk from a mountainous $673 million last March to a manageable $369 million...
...ordered to adopt unitary desegregation this fall, white suburbs formed their own tiny districts. The toughest problem of all is the movement of whites to outlying residential suburbs. Example: in Little Rock, Ark., where Central High School was desegregated 13 years ago, the proportion of white students has shrunk from 75% to 61% and is still declining...
...says. In accepting Vesco's aid, I.O.S. announced that the loan-along with Cornfeld's return to the I.O.S. executive committee-"paves the way for an early revitalization of the company's affairs." That may be quite a challenge. I.O.S.'s sales force has shrunk to 6,000 from a peak of 15,000, and in the first half of 1970 the company lost $26 million...
...than that to revive the spirits of Wall Street's professionals, who are in a particularly severe recession. Unlike most other segments of the economy, the securities business is suffering simultaneously from a decline in sales volume and a drop in prices. The result is that brokers' revenues have shrunk dramatically. The New York Stock Exchange estimates that most of its member firms can break even only when average daily trading volume on the Big Board reaches 12 million shares; so far this year, volume has averaged only 10.7 million shares...