Word: shrunk
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Cambridge shrunk slowly through the century, as townsmen asked for the right to open their own churches, instead of making long trips each Sunday. Newton pulled away in 1662, and Lexington opened its own parish in 1696, but Brighton remained a part of Cambridge until 1779. But as it shrunk in size, Cambridge grew in stature, an increasingly wealthy city that also served as the intellectual capital of the 13 colonies...
...defined their "consolidated area" as including five contiguous counties of Southern California. Now, according to preliminary census figures, the argument seems to be over: Los Angeles may have gained 73,000 residents in the '70s for a total of 2,878,000, while Chicago appears to have shrunk by 644,000 to a population...
Black voters, who make up 11% of the U.S. electorate, feel increasingly left out of the American economic system and political process. Since 1964, when a record 59% of black voters went to the polls, the turnout has steadily shrunk; in 1976, it was only 49%. "It is informed apathy," says Columbus Keepler, field services director for the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which was in the forefront of the Southern voter registration drives of the 1960s. "Many people voted once or twice and didn't see anything happen, so they don't vote any more...
...running 16.6% below 1979 levels, factory workers and executives are both getting the ax. Chrysler has already laid off over half its factory work force, and is now cutting its white-collar staff to 65% of last year's levels. The number of total employees last week had shrunk from 130,700 a year ago to 89,900. Ford expects to let over 10,000 of its 67,000 U.S. technical, administrative and sales people go by summer, and GM is saying goodbye to some 18,000 front-office staff...
...city, again in search of tax revenues, has already approved the plans for the complex; now local citizens have carried their fight to have the project shrunk to the state level. All agree that Parcel 1B will be developed, but some residents say they've learned their lesson. A campaign to downzone Mass Ave between Harvard and Central Sques is under way, and the recently passed Harvard Square zoning overlay may, by limiting building heights, discourage large-scale facilities. "I don't think the chicness really appeals to the average person who lives in Cambridge, certainly not to the average...