Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When New Jersey Republican Raymond H. Bateman turned 50 last week, a political numerologist would have chuckled at the irony. The challenger's once commanding lead in the polls had shrunk to only a 50% chance of unseating the Democratic incumbent, Brendan Byrne...
...base shrunk year by year, demands on city services and the costs of those services rose steadily. Moreover, 48 per cent of Boston's land, including colleges, hospitals, cultural institutions, state property, and federal property, was, and still is tax exempt. Attempts to cover the spiralling costs by raising the tax rate merely resulted in the further shrinkage of the tax base as white collar professionals fled the city for the lower property tax levies of the suburbs. The state legislature, controlled by the suddenly powerful combination of suburbs and the western districts, refused, and continues to refuse, to help...
...quarantine in Peking has its counterpart in the carefully guided official tours by which the Maoist authorities have shrunk the "immense and varied universe" of China. Westerners are limited to the dozen or so cities, factories, communes and schools whose reason for being seems to be the welcoming of friendly travelers. Leys takes the tour, finds that aside from a few carefully preserved historical monuments, China's cultural treasures have been sealed off behind curtains of barbed wire, converted to barracks, or utterly destroyed by the Red Guards during their Cultural Revolution. Leys' long list of such monuments...
...declined. If the Dow average in each month since January 1965 had been deflated by the rate of increase in consumer prices for that month, it would today be about 443 (see chart). Another way of putting it: 90? invested in the Dow stocks 12½ years ago has shrunk, because of inflation and the market's poor performance, to 44? today. The Dow is an average of only 30 blue chips, but broader-based averages do not tell any very different story. For example, Standard & Poor's average of 500 stocks, at 97.51, is about the same...
...within 50 years of his death in 1896, the man's reputation had shrunk to a few yards of chintz and flowered wallpaper. This forceful and articulate genius had receded into a green limbo where Pre-Raphaelite ghosts lisped harmlessly to one another. He was posthumously seen as a backward-looking fabulist, a quaint Victorian period piece. The visions of a great radical socialist were diminished and finally lost. Yet in life they absorbed his greatest energies. "There is no salvation for the unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom...