Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ALWAYS wondered how federal policymakers could be so oblivious to the size of the national debt. The United States now owe banks and foreign countries about $3 trillion, constituting a large chunk of our Gross National Product. Each year we spend more than $130 billion in interest payments on the debt--money America could otherwise use to solve several major national problems...
Those exempted from providing parking are required by law to either reduce their building to 80 percent of its original size or pay the city one half of what it would have cost to build parking, said Paul G. Counihan '39 McMillan's attorney...
...because Banker's proposal would cut off light from McMillan's building, Counihan said the lawsuit asks the courts to force the planning board to decide whether Banker must reduce the size or pay the city...
...changes were the result of feminist ideology. Female employment in the U.S. has been rising since the 1890s, accompanied, not coincidentally, by a rise in the average age at which women marry, a decline in family size, and a jump in the divorce rate. The sole exceptions to these trends occurred in the 1950s, when, in the prosperous aftermath of World War II, motherhood and babymaking became a kind of national cult: there was a return to earlier marriage, families were bigger and divorce rates stabilized. Though women continued to pour into the workplace during the '50s, this fact...
More striking than the size of the Pentagon's proposed cutback was the timing of its announcement. Bush has become adept at letting the most conservative Cabinet members announce liberal-sounding policy changes that could anger the Republican right. It thus fell to Cheney to disclose that the Pentagon is examining conventional-weapons cuts that would go beyond Bush's plan, unveiled at last May's NATO summit, to reduce U.S. and Soviet forces to 275,000 each. Some Pentagon officials are worried that the talk about reducing defense spending could, in the words of one, give some allies...