Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with an elitist image and an increasingly upper-class student body, Princeton abandoned a policy like Harvard's for one that will convert some loans into grants and shrink many families' expected contributions...
...Newspapers will shrink in size. Over the past 125 years, newspapers have grown. Now they will begin to shrink. The newspaper of 25 years from now will be smaller, but will contain more relevant information for the reader. In addition, articles will be shorter and contain plugs for ways to find out more information about the subject through the Internet...
...past them straight to his chair and sat down with his back to them. If he knew they were there, he gave no sign. David sighed deeply, leaned over and whispered to his mother. He put his arm around her small shoulders, and the two of them seemed to shrink with grief...
Though it had been scheduled earlier, the Dec. 18 dinner was the turning point for U.S. policymakers. Japanese markets had dipped nearly 6% overnight, and the Dow Jones industrial average had dropped more than 100 points. Fears were spreading that an Asian recession would shrink earnings of American companies and halt the U.S. economy's remarkable and long-running growth. Just that morning, South Korea's foreign-exchange reserves had fallen to less than $10 billion. Default was about 10 days away...
Soros Spreads Cheer in Seoul Troubled economies shrink in terror at the very mention of financier George Soros. But reports that he was bargain-hunting in Seoul sent markets rising...