Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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University officials cite lower enrollment, high indirect research costs, and government funding cuts as the causes of the monetary gap. No current faculty members will lose their jobs, but those who leave will not be replaced, in the effort to shrink expenditures...
...came to Harvard because I was convinced that it was the best school in the country, and I now realize that I waste an opportunity every time I shrink from its challenges. It sounds so elementary and trite, but I often forget that I owe the world nothing more than my effort. If I expend myself and do not "measure up," then perhaps I am misdirecting my energy. Perhaps I need to look somewhere else...
...month why the deficit shouldn't be attacked with intensity until after recovery is fully under way (and why it isn't as bad as Ross Perot would have it anyway). But once unemployment and wages improve, the next president should work for spending cuts and tax hikes to shrink the deficit, if only because it makes Americans nervous about needed government spending and needed consumer spending...
...will remain the one reigning military superpower in this less heavily armed world. Its forces will shrink considerably to enable it to concentrate more of its energies on economic and social advances, but it will continue to provide global outreach with state-of-the-art weapons and an invulnerable nuclear arsenal. The U.S. will have to preserve this role because the technical know-how to build nuclear weapons cannot be abolished no matter how carefully arms-control treaties are drafted. Truly determined governments, among them many smaller nations that covet prestige and power, cannot be prevented from buying or building...
...collective mental breakdown? Does the team need a shrink...