Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together from stray comments and rhetoric. But most importantly, we do not have a clear Carter philosophy. His record since his Georgia days does not reflect a consistent philosophy, but political opportunism. He now denies his support for George Wallace in 1972. The size of his defense cut has shrunk. His stand on the Panama Canal is a reaction to the conservative opinion Reagan mobilized and not a part of a coherent foreign policy. Yugoslavia, busing, abortion... From the first, the Carter campaign was based not on a positive program, but on a negative appeal to people disillusioned with Washington...
...moved in with his wife Judy, then 23 and one small daughter. Since then, he has become an exemplar of another type of Southerner: the small farmer who clings to the land even though he can barely scratch a living out of it Frix' s farm today has shrunk to about 100 acres ("We didn't have a choice; it was sell part or lose it all"); his family has grown to include a three-month-old son and four daughters aged two to nine. He and his wife look ten years older than their calendar ages...
...poured billions into peso-dominated bonds and savings accounts. At the old exchange rate, for example, $2,000 would have bought a 25,000-peso bond that at 12% would pay interest equal to $240 a year. At 20 pesos to the dollar, the bondholder's principal has shrunk to $1,250, and his interest to $150 a year...
...rays, drugs and radioactive elements-or combinations of them. This week doctors at Brooklyn's Veterans Administration Hospital reported initial success with a new weapon in the anticancer arsenal: high-frequency radio waves. By using the waves to heat cancerous tissue, they said, they had destroyed or shrunk malignant tumors in 21 cancer patients...
...cases of lung cancer, the treatments produced extensive destruction of malignant cells and noticeably improved the condition of the patients; four of them are still alive. In one cancer victim with an abdominal tumor six inches in diameter, the growth was shrunk to only 1½ inches; five months after it was removed, there was no detectable regrowth. One of the most impressive cases involved a patient with a cancerous kidney. Except for a small portion that had apparently been missed by the radio field, the entire tumor was destroyed...