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Once upon a more recent time, a 400-lb. biochemist named Sherman Klump confronted the opposite problem. He wanted to shrink and have sculpted pecs, or anyway be hot and hip--sort of like, well, Eddie Murphy on speed--and after a little genetic engineering, he realized that somewhat less woeful wish. Thus was a remake, central to the hope of restoring Murphy to the core of our comic consciousness, born...
Malone cited his experience as state treasurer to show how government agencies can simultaneously shrink in size and grow in effectiveness...
Committee members speculated that conversion to affiliate housing would shrink the neighborhood's housing stock and harm Cambridge's Agassiz neighborhood, where most of the apartments are located...
Much of CLUH's success in the early '90s came from its close relationship with the administration, particularly then-dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. But the organization has seen its influence shrink under Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...time to go and he knew it. Not just because he was faltering in the polls (although that played no small part), not only because he was getting trampled in the battle of Pennsylvania Avenue (a skirmish in which he seemed to shrink rather than grow), but because every morning when Bob Dole walked into the well of his beloved Senate, he could lose himself in the mechanics of legislation, forget for a while that he had a greater task remaining before him than cobbling together a Republican majority for a cloture vote...