Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from their Phnom-Penh hospital beds to work in the countryside. This set the pattern. The populations of every city have been evacuated-young, old, sick, well-and forced, at rifle point, to work in the rice fields. All shops, schools and hospitals have been closed. Phnom-Penh has shrunk from a war-swollen population of 2.5 million to an empty and lifeless shell...
While the gross national product has increased-by an annual average of 7.26% in the past three years-inflation has grown far faster, reaching a staggering 40% in Manila during 1974. Real wages have probably declined for working-class urban Filipinos. The 1976 peso has shrunk to a mere 34% of its 1967 value...
...week, they found that it had taken about 30 hits, mainly from .50-cal. armor-piercing machine-gun bullets. The desks were covered with shards of glass and plaster, but the telephones and telex were still working. Says Prager: "The relatively safe areas have become smaller; the box has shrunk." Marmon took advantage of the latest cease-fire to explore further...
...increase in November over October but intends to put on-line workers on overtime instead of recalling laid-off employees to man the assembly lines. That strategy does not sit well with union leaders. Despite Detroit's improving fortunes, the auto industry's work force has shrunk by 100,000 people in two years; 70,000 are still on indefinite layoff...
Curled in a fetal position and shrunk to half her normal 120 Ibs., Karen Ann Quinlan lies helpless in St. Clare's Hospital in Denville, N.J., unaware that she is in effect going on trial for her life. Her eyes are open, unseeing. Her body convulses slightly every few seconds as an artificial respirator, surgically connected to her windpipe, forces her lungs to work, enabling her to continue in what her doctors describe as a "chronic vegetative state." Her heart is beating, and her permanently damaged brain continues to function, sending off slight but steady signals visible...