Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, which was made public yesterday, said the University's attempts to review costs not related to compensation and financial aid in the search for savings are meeting with success. In 1993, Harvard saw its deficit shrink to $21 million from last year's $37 million shortfall...
...Bobbitt-like fellows who regard the penis as a portable battering ram. So the ripple of glee that passed through the female population when Lorena Bobbitt struck back shows that feminist intellectualdom has it wrong. In polls, American women are strongly supportive of feminist issues, and if they nonetheless shrink from the F word itself, this is not because they think it means man-hating militants from hell. On the contrary, the problem with "feminism" may be that it has come to sound just too damn dainty...
...went to Harvard Medical School and swiftly became disillusioned. "I hated it, he says. "I'd go to the shrink, and he'd tell me that everybody hated it. Why? Well, you went through it to get your license. There was nothing to discuss. You went through the hazing to join the fraternity -- it was male-dominated in those days...
...seemed that taxol, a drug which would soon be used successfully to shrink ovarian and breast cancer tumors, was only found in the bark of the rare tree...
...terrain seems all but assured. As a result of the legislative changes, entrenched political tenure among members of the Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P), so secure that it was handed on from father to son, is bound to crumble, and the number of political parties in the country will probably shrink from the current nine to two or three. Though corruption will surely not disappear, the current need for politicians to raise huge sums of under-the-table cash for re-election will diminish. Perhaps most important, the new system will help shift power from rural voters and rice-farming interests...