Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually in denominations of more than $100,000, at interest rates high enough to attract buyers. Not surprisingly, some of the biggest customers for the certificates have turned out to be none other than the money market funds. In sum, the more the passbook deposits in the banks have shrunk, the fatter have grown the money market funds, and the higher has climbed the cost to the banks of borrowing the money back again to stay in business...
...called natural breakfast foods made of oats, honey, raisins and nuts with no nutrition-boosting additives. But the bloom of the early 1970s back-to-nature movement faded once it became known that they were heavy in fat and sugar and poor in nutrition. The naturals' market has shrunk from 10% in 1974 to the current 3%. Fortified bran-based cereals, helped by studies showing the health benefits of high-fiber diets, have replaced the natural products. Quaker Oats' Corn Bran is now one of the hottest new cereals on the shelf, while Ralston's Honey Bran...
...materials, designers often created buildings that aged prematurely and consumed heating oil as if it would cost 160 per gal. forever. With their budgets severely strained, school officials have paid only for the absolute necessities: soaring energy bills, teachers' salaries, research costs. As a result, maintenance budgets have shrunk proportionally, just as buildings and machinery have begun to fall apart. Georgia's state university system, for instance, estimates it needs $12 million annually to get the buildings on its 32 campuses back into shape, but last year spent only $2.25 million...
...regularly uses the President's State of the Union message as an occasion to offer his own report on the state of black America. Last week's installment, like its predecessors, was grim. Describing blacks as "boat people without boats," Jordan said that their average wages had shrunk from 61% of white wages in 1969 to 59% in 1978. And despite the reports of a growing black middle class, the number of blacks in that category remained stationary at about 25% throughout the 1970s; so did the larger number of black poor...
...rich have always liked to assume the costumes of the poor. Take the American language. It is more than a million words wide, and new terms are constantly added to its infinite variety. Yet as the decade starts, the U.S. vocabulary seems to have shrunk to child size...