Word: shrinkly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saying he was "disappointed" that 55% of the voters had rejected his plan, Roemer last week proposed laying off thousands of state employees and closing vocational schools and hospitals. That would shrink up to $720 million from a budget already shriveled by a decline in tax revenues from oil companies. It would still leave the legislature with an unhappy choice: extend the 3% sales tax that Roemer's new measures would have replaced or accept severe cutbacks in vital government services...
...risk is that the unexamined life becomes self-sustaining. Attention spans may be richly elastic, but little in this rapid life-style conspires to stretch them. In fact the reverse is true, as TV commercials shrink to 15- second flashes and popular novels contain paragraphs no longer than two sentences. "I do things in a lot of 3 1/2-minute segments," muses UCLA anthropologist Peter Hammond. "Experience just sort of rolls by me. I think it affects the quality of my work...
This week the federal bankruptcy court will decide what to do next. Texas Air wants to shrink Eastern to compact size, linking about 60 cities with 130 jetliners, down from the 110 cities served by 250 planes before the strike began. Another option, an auction to sell off Eastern in pieces to the highest bidders, could draw such expansion-minded airlines as TWA, American and Delta. Adding to the suspense, sources close to Ueberroth say his game may still go into extra innings...
...fences. The wives and children of players often come out to games in Florida. Babies are dandled at the chain link, to be smooched by unshaven dads wearing polyester knickers and adorned with smears of soot under their eyes. Unmarried rookies attract wilder rail birds. Young women wearing shrink-wrapped slacks call hello to bullpen inmates; dates are made and possibly kept...
...seen since the oil-shock days of the 1970s. January petroleum imports averaged 8.1 million bbl. a day, up almost 21% from a year ago and surpassing domestic production (8 million bbl.) for the first time in more than a decade. The import surge has hampered efforts to shrink the U.S. trade deficit, and rising prices have aggravated inflationary pressure...