Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with TIME last week, Woolsey vowed to shrink intelligence spending "prudently," but complained that Congress has doubled the Administration's proposed cuts, from $7 billion to $14 billion, through 1997. During the 1990s, the cuts will slice 1 of every 4 positions from the U.S. intelligence payroll. "The intelligence community and the CIA will be -- by the end of the decade -- down to about the size it was in the Carter Administration," Woolsey says. The man who ran the agency back then, however, doesn't see that as a problem. "I don't think we were shorthanded...
Still, we shrink from the obvious inference: for a woman, home is, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place to be. Her worst enemies and potential killers are not strangers but lovers, husbands and those who claimed to love her once. Similarly, for every child like Polly Klaas who is killed by a deranged criminal on parole, dozens are abused and murdered by their own relatives. Home is all too often where the small and weak fear to lie down and shut their eyes...
...falling dollar is good for one thing: it makes our products cheaper for foreigners to buy. But this hasn't narrowed our trade deficit with Japan, which stands at about $60 billion a year; nor has it done much to shrink our $10 billion deficit with Germany. And while some currency watchers say our government wants the dollar to fall so low that even the Japanese won't be able to resist buying U.S. goods, this game of chicken has shown few signs of success. Each time the dollar has fallen sharply in the past 25 years, the Japanese have...
Umpires like Sultan Gangji serve as judge, jury and shrink...
...world had roughly 3.9 billion people and was growing by 80 million a year. Since then the world's population has grown nearly 1.7 billion, and it now increases 90 million annually. Today the Green Revolution falters, ecosystems are badly degraded and fresh-water supplies continue to shrink. It is open to question whether the world can feed the 3 billion to 5 billion mouths that will be added during the next 50 years.Refugees produced by population pressures in Africa and Asia already threaten to destabilize nations...