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...contrast, the endowment payout shrank by 0.8 percent in real terms in FY03. The University will likely record real declines in payout again for the current year and next year...
...Orwell, who died in 1950, never shrank from the big stuff. "The three great subjects of the twentieth century were imperialism, fascism and Stalinism," writes Christopher Hitchens in his wonderful book Why Orwell Matters. Those were Orwell's topics, and he was right on all of them: able to pierce the hypocrisy of imperial adventures, to warn of the deathly appeal of fascism, and - when many were in thrall to the supposed achievements of the Soviet Union - to state baldly that Stalin was a "disgusting murderer." It is because Orwell was unflinching in his opposition to all the totalitarianisms...
Last year Unilever shrank its industry-standard 100-oz. jug of Wisk laundry detergent to 80 oz. Kimberly-Clark nipped the diaper count in its Huggies packages about 18%. Dreyer's and Edy's Grand ice creams no longer come in the familiar half-gallon (64 oz.) tub; the 12% smaller cartons hold only 56 oz. Hewlett-Packard has even downsized a ream of paper: packages of its Everyday Inkjet Paper contain 400 sheets instead of 500. "It's almost like going to buy eggs and finding 11 in the carton," says Edgar Dworsky, founder of ConsumerWorld.org a consumer-advocacy...
...waist and bust. She decided to buy a franchise while continuing to work as a real estate agent, spending $65,000 to set it up in a shopping center, and enlisted daughter Diana, 36, to manage it. Within three months, Holding's Curves had 400 members. As Diana rapidly shrank from a size 22 to a 12, shedding 48 in. from her figure, she decided to open her own Curves on the other side of town. Holding's youngest daughter Danielle, a recent college grad, got help from Mom in opening the first Curves in Austin, Texas...
...field, Logigian inspired the Crimson to make its miraculous second-half comeback, when it shrank an eight goal deficit to just three...