Word: shrinkly
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Cruise the party. Although alcohol is optional in the hunt for nooky, it certainly facilitates consensual interactions. Potential targets should be identified early, taking into account the fact that the pool may grow or shrink as the evening progresses. Proper identification of candidates depends upon such attributes as availability (did they come alone?), appropriate species characteristics (open to debate) and size (height differentials can be damaging in dance situations). Good scoping spots include raised areas (backs of couches, edges of platforms) from which the room can be fully surveyed, as well as locations near the beverages...
...projections were vastly overestimated. Whitman plans to trim, among other items, the state's environmental-protection and transportation budgets. She will also lay off 812 state workers. An additional 2,200 positions will be contracted out to the private sector. However, with state funding for local services likely to shrink, some municipalities are raising local property taxes to make up the shortfall. According to the Office of Legislative Services, during Whitman's first year in office, state income taxes went down an average of $49, but local property taxes went up $175. During her campaign, she predicted that...
...downturn. Some 4,000 businesses closed in the first four weeks of 1995 because of high interest rates, lack of sales and tight credit since the peso crash. Predictions of the annual inflation rate for 1995 run to 20% or more, and many economists expect the economy to shrink at least 2%, even if the U.S. guarantee is approved. Government and private analysts contend that while direct foreign investment will fall only slightly below last year's $7.5 billion, portfolio investment--funds directed toward the stock and bond markets--is likely to decline from $10 billion to $1 billion...
...just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...
...brief the new President and letting him know that they were staying in one of Little Rock's cheapest motels. But Clinton has kept his distance from the agency. Woolsey complained that he was cut out of the White House inner circle. "People want the intelligence community to shrink, but at the same time they have more and more things they want it to be on top of," says former CIA director William Webster. In leading the agency into the future, the next director will have to decide, more than anything eelse, what secrets the U.S. can afford...