Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to lower the publishing frequency to twice a month and raise the price to $1.25. At the outset Look expects to sell 600,000 copies, less than one-tenth the 6.5 million total the old Look had when it folded. If things go according to plan, readership will swell to 1.5 million in three years, and the magazine will break into the black...
...Board of Economists fear that even if Congress accepts all this shrinkage, a recession nonetheless will push the deficit up to $50 billion by reducing tax collections and increasing unemployment benefits. That does not mean the effort to cut other spending is unwise; without it, the deficit could swell to monstrous proportions...
...About 10% more crude is needed to produce a gallon of unleaded than leaded gas, and that extra margin increases the nation's oil import bill, which once again has begun to grow after showing some brief signs of improving. This year, oil and natural gas imports will swell to $45 billion, up from $42 billion last year. Cornpared with conventional gasoline, unleaded fuel is more expensive to make, costs more at the pump, and gives a lackluster performance under the hood...
...Swell the mighty torrents...
...factories, 20 garment plants, a shoe factory that employs 3,000, and about 30 transplanted cigar factories. Hispanics are prominent in land development and make up 60% of the construction work force. They control 14 of the 67 local commercial banks. One, the Continental National, has seen its deposits swell from $2 million to $29 million in the past four years. Latinos generate an estimated $1.8 billion in annual income and have created 100,000 jobs. Says Jan Luytjes, a business professor at Florida International University: "We are seeing the rebirth of small entrepreneurship...