Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emden plant, which was making only Rabbits for export to the U.S., to turn out other cars as well. Schmücker continued Leiding's policy of paying workers as much as $6,000, tax free, to quit. In the past three years the work force has shrunk by 37,000, to 124,000; with Volkswagen now making about 45% of all cars sold in Germany, the company has begun some modest rehiring...
...paper has had to trim its editorial staff from 21 to twelve. Two of the three reporters whose Pulitzer-winning articles revealed the stranglehold that the Teamsters have gained on Alaskan labor have left for better jobs, and the morning Daily News' circulation of 11,600 has shrunk to 7,580. But Publisher Katherine Fanning, 49, who with her husband bought the paper in 1967 after leaving her native Illinois, is fighting back. She has sued Anchorage's other newspaper, the Times, for $16.5 million because, she says, it is trying to put her out of business...
...Although four doctors rotated in taking care of Hughes, his medical condition was appalling. His former 6-ft. 4-in. frame had shrunk three inches, and his weight fluctuated between a high of 130 Ibs. and a cadaverous 90 Ibs. He suffered variously from anemia, arthritis and assorted other ills. Nothing plagued him more than constipation; at one time, he sat on the toilet for 72 straight hours, occasionally propping himself on a chair set next to him so he could support himself while dozing...
...Instructional Fund--an account the Faculty uses to cover its deficits--has shrunk to an all-time low, with a current value of $4.8 million. In 1962, this fund was worth about $12.6 million...
Steinbeck has tried to feel the Arthurian apestry, not just to look at it from a distance. The Acts tries to re-weave the fabric of this legend in colorfast and pre-shrunk threads of modern idiom. Casting nostalgia aside, one must admit that any tapestry furnishing the room of a modern mind must be able to go in the wash, to be treated as something useable and abusable, not as a museum piece. Steinbeck has come a long way towards making Arthur wash...