Word: shrinkly
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...poll secretly commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's ruling Labor Party has found that his government would be trounced were general elections held now, Labor and other government sources have told TIME. According to the poll, Labor's share of the 120-seat Knesset would shrink from 44 seats to only 27. The opposition Likud Party, on the other hand, would leap from 32 seats to 47. "There is a great deal of alarm in the party," one Labor official admits. The clandestine poll, unlike far more optimistic recent public surveys, had an unusually large sample size...
Just days after pledging to shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the ongoing tax-cut frenzy, President Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses...
Gingrich missed the key point. "We finally got smart," says an aide to Massachusetts Governor William Weld. "Before we changed, it was like Lucy -- 'The shrink is in for 5 cents.' All people had to do was come in with a note asserting a disability. Now claims are reviewed by a panel of doctors. We modeled our program on the one used by the feds; it works...
...traditional political parties. If new elections were held, no one could be sure how voters would react. In first-round municipal balloting two weeks ago, Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, dropped from its 30% share last June to only 12%, largely because of public resentment against his drive to shrink the bloated welfare state by reforming government pensions. During his run for the Prime Minister's job, Berlusconi had promised a new economic miracle in which a million new jobs would be created; now he was threatening to give Italy its first serious postwar dose of austerity...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received assurances from President Clinton in Washington today that his country's $3 billion annual U.S. aid package -- the largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign...