Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Africa's exploding population is already one of the world's great environmental and human disasters, and the problem could get much worse in the next few years. Yet when British biologists predicted that the number of Africans could actually begin to shrink within two decades, the reaction was unalloyed horror. The reason for the decline, said the biologists: a dramatic increase in deaths due to AIDS. Places like Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi and Tanzania, in Central and East Africa, hard hit by the epidemic, would be the most severely affected. The scientists note that Uganda will have 20 million people...
...board, though. The effort to preserve an authentic, Kennedys-and-Roosevelts-slept-here feel in the dorms has created wide discrepancies in room size and quality. Three months from now you could be showing your quarters to a photographer from House Beautiful. Or you could be consulting a shrink about your newly-acquired claustrophobia...
...list goes on. Women poured into the legal profession only to find that Dan Quayle, Esq., had got there ahead of them, and was campaigning for Malthusian measures to shrink the profession. Or they elbowed their way into male-only clubs -- where they found the huge leather armchairs empty and the air strangely clear of cigar smoke. The men had already run off to the woods, half naked, to pound on drums with Robert...
...from somewhere, LTV is almost certain to go belly up, leaving a $3.1 billion pension shortfall for more than 100,000 current and retired -- American -- employees. Beyond secrets and beyond jobs, what's at stake is how the U.S. should cope with an industry that is bound to shrink as the country comes home from the cold...
...Persian Gulf conflict, U.S. airlines have lost more than $6 billion since 1990. American has been no exception: its parent company, AMR, has lost a combined $279 million in the past two years. All that has led Crandall to predict that the number of major carriers will continue to shrink. Says he: "I think there is probably some consolidation left to happen...