Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ORGANIZED LABOR HAS been on the defensive in this country for a good long time now. The unionized percentage of the work force has shrunk steadily since the 1950s, it now numbers less than a quarter of the total. New union organizing drives flounder much more often than they succeed, usually through intimidation and high-pressure tactics by union-busting consultants. Even in traditionally unionized areas--coalmining, for instance--non-union production is on the rise, as owners learn to outlast and out-maneuver their workers. The partisan political power of unions has all but disappeared; Lane Kirkland...
...press was " As goes Stewart, so goes the court." During the more liberal days of the Warren Court (1962-69), Stewart was often in the minority but with the passing of that era he again became what he remains today, a crucial swing man. As a centrist, Stewart has shrunk from formulating sweeping principles that would place him in one camp or another. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: " He's not going to be remembered as a great Justice, but that's part of his strength in a way. He was not an ideologue, not an extremist...
Those whose attention spans have shrunk to the length of a station break are going to find Riddley Walker easy to bypass. The novel's first sentence, for example, is not exactly a conventional grabber: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Even patient readers are likely to riffle pages at this point, trying to find...
...deposited all her savings ($9.81) and a $25 parental loan to ensure the required minimum balance in a local bank one year ago. She returned to the bank last month, eager to see how much interest she had made, only to learn that even with interest her $9.81 had shrunk to $5.48. The bank had deducted a new service charge for small accounts...
...windows. The man who presides over this scene, Richard Allen, is something of an enigma himself. His public image is overshadowed by those of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, who preceded him as National Security Adviser. They resided upstairs in grander style and dominated foreign policy. Allen has shrunk the adviser's job to the stature it had with McGeorge Bundy (Kennedy) and Walt Rostow (Johnson); indeed, he is back in their old basement office, in one corner of the supersecure complex. It is a modest command post for the task: giving Ronald Reagan the full facts...