Word: shrink
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...been repeatedly undermined by budget constraints. Federal funding for the compiling of statistics has fallen from $1.7 billion in 1980 to $1.6 billion in 1987, even though the cost of gathering data has gone up. The Administration wants more money for the job, but as Congress struggles to shrink the budget deficit by cutting spending, the chances seem slim that something as unglamorous as statistics will survive...
Such bouts of good feeling have been seen before -- and dashed before. Alone, they have little more significance than smiles at a summit, and they can be just as deceptive and dangerous. But to the extent that the new attitudes reflect real reforms in Soviet society that shrink the basic differences between the two nations, they could mark a historic turning point in the cold war. That would be far more important than anything Reagan and Gorbachev might conjure up at a crowded conference table, or inside a cozy dacha...
Panama's short-term ability to get by may be only forestalling severe economic setbacks. Orville Goodin, Panama's Finance Minister, predicted last week that the country's output of goods and services will shrink 20% in 1988 from last year's level. Tourism, which in 1987 brought in $187 million, is practically moribund...
...Baker rides out these delicate days with a shoeshine and a smile, convinced that the West, and especially the U.S., has the know-how to produce an era of unprecedented prosperity with peace. "It is not apocalypse now," he insists. If the deficits shrink more and there is no recession ("I see nothing out there to indicate that the economy is not going to keep growing"), then expansion could diminish that specter of a $2.4 trillion debt making hostages of young Americans. Banishing fear is the heart of politics...
While Moscow is in no imminent danger of losing control over its non-Russian & nationalities, the problem is likely to become more critical in the future. Today ethnic Russians constitute about 51% of the Soviet Union's 285 million population. That proportion will shrink to 48% by the year 2000 and to only 40% by 2050, mainly because of the high birthrate of the Muslim populations of Central Asia. Russian domination will become increasingly hard to maintain...