Word: shrunk
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Nowhere are labor's troubles more evident than in Detroit. As the U.S. auto industry this week limps to the end of its worst sales year since 1961, 345,000 members of the U.A.W. are on temporary or indefinite layoff. Moreover, the union's active membership has shrunk by 300,000 workers since 1979, to 1.2 million. Chrysler has been on the intensive-care list for more than two years, and union officials are now worried about the survival of American Motors. Admits U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser: "The industry and, consequently, the workers are in deep, deep trouble...
...These characteristics define the cat." Chicago Pet Shop Owner Donna Dunlop adds: "It's not just children and the elderly who have cats, it's young professionals in their 30s who are getting them." The inconvenience of owning a dog in a city, where apartment sizes have shrunk and pooper-scooper laws make the litter pan look like a less burdensome alternative, may also explain the recent upsurge in catomania. Says New York's A.S.P.C.A. executive director, John Kullberg, about the guard dog-cat controversy: "If you buy a cat, you can always get an extra lock...
...turned into Iowa City). One author, Jane Davison, called one-family suburban houses "an oppressive Utopian ideal, a spiritual imperative"the Levittown version of Ibsen's dollhouse. But economics and demographics, as well as feminist restlessness, intrude on the vision The size of the average American household has shrunk in 20 years from 3.3 to 2.75, a fragmentation that demands more housing units even at a moment when housing is harder than ever to finance...
...past decade, organized labor in this country has steadily lost ground. The number of unionized workers has shrunk to barely a third of the labor force in an economy which has become overwhelmingly service-oriented. Following the tone set by former UAW president Leonard Woodcock and his successor, Douglas Fraser, prevailing wisdom has had it that in times of economic stress labor must cooperate with management wherever possible. This represents a strong departure from American labor's history: for years, the worst accusation that could be directed at union representatives was that they were "company men" or "in bed with...
...same time, contends the Administration, the federal budget deficit should almost disappear as rising productivity and increased employment combine to increase federal revenues and wipe out the loss to the Treasury from the tax cuts. By 1984, according to this rosy projection, the deficit should have shrunk from around $55 billion next year to a minuscule $2.2 billion-though even that could vanish with further refinements in the tax package...