Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory was not as easy as the final 52-24 score might indicate. When Harvard allowed a 21-0 lead to shrink to seven, there was plenty of reason to be worried, because everyone had seen this before...
...overwhelmingly chose a few vocations: physician, attorney, academic and shrink. There's a '60s mentality at work here, looking for jobs that do good. Yes, we thought then and continue to think that even lawyers are in the business of changing the world for the better, which is why so many of us specialize in public policy, criminal defense and pro bono work. Ingrid Olsen-Tjensvold, counsel to the Cortland County, N.Y., department of social services, is deeply rewarded by "having a hand in keeping children safe from harm." Margaret Brown White works with the worst of the mentally...
...relatively cheap. The real breakthrough is that copper conductors will make it simpler to build much smaller chips. This is a big relief to chipmakers, who were, as the pessimists suspected, having a tough time pushing electrons through smaller and smaller aluminum conduits, which become less conductive as they shrink. IBM had been working patiently on the problem since scientists realized a decade ago that to move to the next level of miniaturization (to wiring .25 microns wide, about 400 times thinner than a human hair), they would need to abandon aluminum...
Before I dive back into the routine, I let all my responsibilities shrink back to their proper size, from the gigantic proportions they had achieved while I worried about them. I stop driving myself for just a little while. I take stock. I settle, and balance...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE The demise of the Soviet Union shifted resources from defense to more productive uses and opened new export markets, labor pools and natural resources. Government's belt-tightening means Uncle Sam needs to borrow less, leading to lower interest rates. This year the deficit is expected to shrink to about $70 billion, down 75% from $290 billion in 1992. The annual red ink is now less than 1.4% of gross domestic product, the lowest of any industrialized country. Result: a productivity-driven boom...