Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frustration of a country facing enormous economic and social woes, where everything is put on hold waiting for Yeltsin either to govern in his previous forceful manner or step aside. "The basic stuff gets done," says Quinn-Judge, "but no major initiatives have been implemented." The economy continued to shrink in 1996 and the Kremlin's bold tax-collection initiative has run out of steam. Yeltsin has been utterly unable to keep his promise to pay the back salaries due state employees ranging from teachers to coal miners. While his aides are saying the president could return to his desk...
...instead of putting all of it in Treasury bonds as is done now. A second plan, which would increase Social Security payroll taxes by 1.6 percent, would require workers to contribute to individual savings accounts, managed by the government, whose earnings would supplement their benefit checks. Benefits would slowly shrink, off-setting earnings from the savings accounts. The final option, considered the most radical, would allow workers to invest five percent of their Social Security payments in the markets of their choice. The biggest concern among analysts is that many individuals do not have the skills to invest for themselves...
Many managers can slash their way to profits. Act II, growth, is the tough part, and that's where Martinez is right now. "You can't shrink your way to greatness," he is fond of saying. Sears has gained 10 million sq. ft. of selling space, mainly for apparel, in areas reclaimed from storage rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River...
...Congress in part because a majority of them viewed a potential Democratic Congress with Dick Gephardt in the Speaker's chair as too liberal. Also, for the first time, polls have shown that a majority of Americans want government to do less, not more. All told, Americans want to shrink the size of government...
Republicans like Tate (and Dole) have a legitimate complaint here. Democrats, from Clinton on down, found their best issue this year in overstating if not actually fabricating Republican designs to shrink the government. In that sense you could say that this election was indeed "stolen." Claiming the center ground and painting the opposition as extreme is a standard campaign strategy, but it is a game the Republicans have played much better than the Democrats until this year. For the Democrats to play it suddenly with equal success does seem almost like cheating. Two things made this possible. Republicans are happy...