Word: swollenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upgrade their research staffs; it would sharpen the body's procedures; and it would provide a more effective check on the executive's power by creating a more efficient, more disciplined legislature. Besides, the Massachusetts house, with one representative for every 24,204 people, was more swollen than any other state legislature except New Hampshire's, with one for every 2,055. California, with a population almost five times as large as Massachusetts', has an assembly of only 80 members...
...answer is that they cannot find jobs, at least jobs they want to stay in and grow in. The problem has swollen to pandemic proportions since Lyricist Lee Adams wrote Kids for the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. Massive youth unemployment-and the threat of social and political unrest that goes with it-now faces the world's industrialized democracies, adding to an already unnerving brew of mounting inflation, trade imbalances and looming energy shortages. So grave has the problem become that seven major world leaders, including President Jimmy Carter, resolved at the London economic summit...
Actually, the strategy that brought the revival was not all Schmücker's. What ailed Volkswagen two years ago was obvious enough: the work force was swollen, consumers around the world had grown tired of the company's ubiquitous Beetle, the rising value of the German mark had pushed up dollar prices of the company's cars enough to slash sales in the all-important U.S. market (they fell by about a third in 1974-75). The remedies were equally clear: cut the labor force, bring out new models, build a plant...
...starts with a high fever and a severe headache, accompanied by swollen glands, vomiting and general pain. Left untreated, the malady gradually worsens. After several months, victims become irritable, then lethargic and sleepy. When they try to walk, they are likely to stumble about with a peculiar shuffling gait. Soon they can no longer stand, sit erect or even eat; often they fall into a coma and die. Their illness is African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis -an ancient scourge that afflicts at least 10,000 people a year...
...into costly prestige projects when world copper prices peaked in early 1974, he led the nation to the edge of bankruptcy. Zaïre's copper travels 43 days from Shaba mines to Congo River ports on rickety Victorian-era railways and barges reminiscent of the African Queen. Swollen prices of bread, rice and other staples have led to widespread discontent...