Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many editors do not shrink from covering issues that involve racial minorities or seeking input on those questions from their black, Hispanic or Asian staffers. One difference between the roles of racial minorities and homosexuals in the news business, of course, is that the ethnic groups are highly visible, while many gays remain closeted. Another difference concerns editorial attitudes: though most news organizations have accepted the importance of racial coverage, issues of concern to gays still engender widespread discomfort...
...homeless, education or the war on drugs. States and local jurisdictions are bidding for repairs in the country's deteriorating infrastructure: roads and bridges, mass transit, pollution-abatement facilities. A good case can be made for increased foreign aid so that America's global position will not shrink along with its military...
Glick complains that the problem set creates an unfair dilemma, since it assumes that income redistribution entails enormous social costs. He asks us to imagine instead that slicing the pie more equally won't shrink it at all, allowing him to hand the citizens of the Rawlsian economy a hefty $99,000 each. Surely, he suggests, the nefarious authors of Ec 10 problem sets could only have come up with the original example as a ploy to discredit the Difference Principle...
...shorter than 97% of the kids his age. But Jonas has high hopes: since he began therapy with human growth hormone three years ago, he has started to grow at a normal pace. The height gap between him and his peers is no longer widening, and it may eventually shrink. Jonas already notices the difference: "Now, because I'm growing faster, I don't get picked on as much...
Campus issues shrink before the lofty questions they now pose. Here's one: What happened to American economic hegemony...