Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Perhaps more significantly, Fox has taken over the rather moribund marketing of baseball with a series of fresh, wiseacre promos titled "Same Game, New Attitude." They include the Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have...
...Dole's G.O.P. colleagues responded to his proposal with surprise. Despite its being a traditionally Republican solution to public housing, congressional Republicans (including Dole) over the past 18 months have repeatedly voted to shrink the voucher program and refused to pass the Clinton Administration's proposal to convert all federal housing programs into such a system...