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...made a startling revelation. Vending machines, while making a profit for their owners, stock inferior candy--and even what they do have is stale. Candy bars cost a fortune. No longer can one be a gourmand on a nickel delight. Even the 15 cent and 20 cent bars have shrunk. My mouth isn't that much bigger, but the bars are consumable in one bite...
...political activity focused on the issue, the number of Marxians teaching in the department has shrunk from a high of five years ago to a distinct possibility that there may be none at all teaching next year...
American Motors Corp. setting the pace for the auto industry? The idea would have seemed ridiculous during the long years when AMC was the only one of the four U.S. automakers losing money and struggling to stay in business. But in a market shrunk by the twin forces of inflation and the energy crisis, AMC's stress on low-priced, gas-saving small cars has suddenly made it the only company that is still prospering. Some examples of its leadership...
...only obvious wound was a bloody lip. But when Gene lifted her, she collapsed in his arms. He said I should look for some cold water somewhere. The girl shivered and shrunk back. She cried and mumbled, "Don't take me to a doctor . . . no doctors . . . no doctors...
...January the Music Institute denounced Franz Schubert as well. Last week the dimensions of the target shrunk, as an article in Jenmin Jih Pao, the Communist Party newspaper, denounced the music of Ottorino Respighi. The work of this modern Italian composer is hardly a touchstone of Western music: he is a minor impressionist whose works are played more often than they deserve. Western critics might denounce him too, if anyone cared. The diatribe in Jenmin Jih Pao specifically cited Respighi's symphonic poem, Pines of Rome for stimulating "empty talk about changes in contrasts and emotions" which tries to "gloss...