Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While more Americans may be putting aside a $50 or a $100 bill as emergency money, the underground economy is also a big demander of cash. Marijuana, prostitution and other illegal New times goods and services are provided on the basis of cash and carry. Many self-employed people swell the amount of currency in circulation by requesting to be paid in cash rather than by check in order to evade income taxes...
OFFON the horizon, a powerful swell was starting to form, and Norman Podhoretz--liberal lefty New York Norman Podhoretz--had his eye on it. It was a powerful comber, powerful enough to wash away much of the sandcastle consensus of the 1960s. But it didn't wash away Norman No, he was up on top, surfing like a native cutting back and forth across the face of the wave, dazzling has new friends and dismaying his old buddies. Why We Were in Vietnam proves the transition--from a man who used to write ponderous articles against the war (didn...
Recessions almost always drive down inflation because prices cannot be raised rapidly when production and sales are falling. As business activity winds down, stockpiles of unsold commodities and goods begin to swell, choking the stream of commerce with bulging inventories of everything from aluminum and grain to cars and unsold homes. To raise cash, businessmen begin dumping their inventories at bargain-basement rates, dragging down prices even further...
...demise of South Africa's apartheid system still appears distant, the poet/activist remains surprisingly optimistic about the prospects of improvement for his people. He sees America playing an important role in the process; "I find a tremendous surge of radicalism and activism beginning, just the start of a ground swell; and as the Reagan plan unfolds, people are going to get more and more angry. There are going to be a lot more people out in the street, marching." Brutus reflects on his anti-apartheid activities in America and South Africa with considerable satisfaction, but also with a sense...
Once the defense buildup begins in earnest, this erosion of productive capacity will probably start to pinch. The backlog for aluminum forgings used in military aircraft is expected to swell from 12 months to 24 months by the end of 1982. The waiting time for aluminum powder and other components in rocket propellants, now ten to twelve months, is expected to grow longer. The delay in supplying integrated circuits used in computerized missile-guidance systems is already 80 weeks in some cases...