Word: shrunk
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...about time. Last year the U.S. had a $27 billion trade deficit, swelled by a bill of almost $45 billion for oil imports. In this year's first four months the gap was $12.5 billion, vs. $7.6 billion for the same period last year. These imbalances have shrunk the value of the dollar overseas, fed inflation at home, cost jobs and raised demands for self-defeating protectionist legislation...
...painting, two great landscapists, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne, are twin bridges between the 19th century and our own. As Cézanne's work provoked cubism, so Monet's looked forward to abstract expressionism. Today the role of landscape in art has shrunk. But the most ecstatic perceptions of experience and the most radical discoveries about the language of color and shape that these sublime artificers made were developed from their landscape motifs. Cézanne's was the Provençal countryside around Aix. Monet's was a garden at Giverny, about...
...today, the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions committee mailed acceptance letters to the 1376 men and 819 women admitted to the Class of '82. Those numbers mean the College's male-female admission ration has shrunk to an all-time low of 1.68 to 1 as compared to 1.8 to 1 for the Class...
...With the economy rising and unemployment falling, even Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and the rest of Carter's closest economic advisers believe that the deficit should be contained. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, one of the Senate's best economic thinkers, argues that the budget should be shrunk to $465 billion. At the very least, it could be reduced to $480 billion by selective paring. If spending is brought down, the Government will be able to further cut personal and corporate taxes, which would offer the double benefit of strapping inflation and stimulating the economy. For invigorating...
Since 1975, the nation's herd has shrunk from 132 million to 116 million head, a seven-year low. Cattlemen are now holding their breeders back from markets to rebuild their stock. As a result, beef is becoming scarcer, and this summer the price of hamburger-quality meat is expected to go up by 15% to 20%. Steak cuts may climb...