Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-existing system under which postal rates and postal expenditures were set by Congress. Fiscal year 1972 was a period of transition. In fiscal year 1973, the first year of full operation, the "reform" postal system generated a deficit of $13 million. In fiscal year 1974, the deficit had swollen to $438 million; in fiscal year 1975, which ended this summer, the deficit was $825 million; and in the current fiscal year, which will end June 30, 1976, the Postmaster General currently predicts that the deficit will exceed $1.4 billion-and then only if another substantial increase in postal rates...
...recent years the ranks of decoration wearers in France have been swollen by purchasers of secondhand medals in flea markets. The lowest-ranking medal of the Legion of Honor, the "Chevalier," can be bought for $50 at the French government mint. There are, of course, penalties (up to two years in prison) for wearing unauthorized decorations, but these are seldom if ever enforced. One reason may be that having a medal does not involve much in the way of an earthly reward; the holder of the lowest grade of the Legion of Honor, for example, gets the princely stipend...
...recent years, the nation's labor force has been swollen by a vast influx of new people looking for work. Between 1968 and 1974, the labor force grew by 11 million people, or 2 million more than the Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics had projected. (The labor force now totals 93.4 million-so that each percentage point of the unemployment rate stands for 934,000 people who want jobs and cannot get them.) Many of the new entrants are blacks; many more are women and teenagers, some of whom are seeking to earn second incomes in families...
...more surprised by the underwriting debacle than the companies themselves. Their reserves, which determine how much new business they can write, were swollen as the companies entered the 1970s. But when the stock market began plunging early in 1973, the companies saw their portfolios wither and their reserves drop 22%, to $21 billion by the end of 1974. At about the same time, inflation was racing ahead to record levels, sending claims costs soaring, a condition that was worsened by an unusually high number of tornado and fire losses...
Calcutta presents a harrowing vision. The destitute, the skin-and-bones starving, the leprous and the dying seem to be concentrated there as nowhere else in India-or the world. Their numbers, swollen by past waves of refugees from Bangladesh, grow daily. At least 200,000 of them live in the streets, building tiny fires to cook their scraps of food, defecating at curbstones, curling up in their cotton rags against a wall to sleep-and often to die. Out of this scene of unremitting human desolation has come an extraordinary message of love and hope. Its bearer...