Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scaling back to such a force would permit the Army to cut its 10 divisions to six and the Marines its three divisions to two, according to some defense experts. Air Force fighters could fall from nearly 1,000 to 400, and the Navy's carrier fleet could shrink from 12 to 10. Lawrence Korb, a top Pentagon official during the Reagan years, agrees with McPeak's estimate that scaling back to a force for "one war plus deterrence" could save about $50 billion annually, or about 20% of the defense budget...
...perfect copies of expensive software programs. The high cost of software comes from the years spent inventing it, not from the plastic and paper on which it is distributed. The full-service operation cracked last week, for instance, copied the disks, tagged them with holograms, and packaged them in shrink-wrapped boxes that included facsimiles of user's guides. Cost to the pirates: roughly $6 a unit. But each box would sell for as much as $200 to an unwitting-or unscrupulous-dealer...
...million on a new federal courthouse in downtown Fargo, they did something most politicians in Washington couldn't have imagined: the citizens tried to give the money back. Agitated by stories in the local newspaper, they sent angry letters to the federal judge overseeing the project, who then helped shrink the plan to $36 million. The state's two Democratic Senators joined the opposition and urged architects to design something that would cost no more than $23 million. Then planners scrapped the idea of a new building and settled instead on a modest $16 million addition to the existing courthouse...
...once that overworked clicha might be true. Consider two measures of how many decades of precedent the Republicans intend to reverse. The Senate G.O.P. wants to zero out the Department of Commerce; Kasich's House troops would also wipe out the Departments of Education and Energy. Either move would shrink the number of Cabinet departments for the first time in 48 years...
...feel your pain. I really do. I had to choose between Harvard and the Nashville Auto Diesel College, and it was the hardest decision I've ever had to make. I finally allowed the powers of the cosmos (and not my Mom, my significant other or my shrink) to help...