Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in fact might have been worked out weeks before. The settlement bought time, but New York still faces serious financial problems that can only be solved by continued austerity-a difficult policy when the large, tough civil service unions can throw the city into chaos any time their swollen contracts are threatened...
...Holy Years have come every 25 years, except for 1800 and 1850, when political problems interfered. Still, it was no automatic decision to proclaim one for 1975. There were questions of the Pope's health and the civic and ecological strains a Holy Year might place on the swollen and strike-plagued city of Rome. Moreover, a low turnout would proclaim Catholic indifference. Two years ago, Paul spoke openly of his doubts. "We have asked ourselves if such a tradition should be continued in our times," he said, because of all the changes since Vatican Council...
America's post-World War II baby boom has swollen the traditional crime-prone age bracket (14 to 24) as never before?and possibly never again. In 1950 there were 24 million young Americans in this age group. A decade later it was 27 million, and now it is 44 million; the bulge will not disappear until the 1980s...
...eyes are so swollen. I had too much vino last night," complained Playwright Tennessee Williams. With a new novel, Moise and the World of Reason, just off the presses and a play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that...
...more optimistic members are betting that a big sell-off of swollen business inventories will soon leave corporations able to reorder goods and cause production to turn up. The Government figures that business inventories in March declined $1.92 billion, the largest drop on record (see chart). Board members are also banking on a strong surge of consumer spending in the months ahead as a consequence of slowing inflation and the reduction in income tax withholding rates that took effect on May 1. Even more important, the $100 to $200 rebate checks that the Government is now mailing to all taxpayers...