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...analysis of society, one finds that identifiable sub-groups of society are differentiated by significant gross disparities, one has to make the decision of whether or not that's good social policy, or whether or not it is in the interest of the society generally to try to shrink those disparities. One can do that by sort of saying. "Things will some day be better." Or one can decide that it is a significant enough disparity and a problem, to do some sort of intervention...
...what Germans call Waldsterben, or dying forests, are obvious. New leaves and needles, smaller than usual, turn yellow or brown and finally drop to the ground. In time, many evergreens, some of them 150 years old, simply stop bearing needles. Roots and trunks begin to warp, gnarl and shrink...
...Salvador pressed the murder investigations properly. It now seems likely that the five Guardsmen charged with murdering the churchwomen will finally be tried. The Salvadoran government has a large incentive to do justice in the case: if no trial is held, Congress has ordered that U.S. military aid shrink 30%, or $20 million this fiscal year...
With 1:10 to go, Harvard guard Arne Duncan grabbed an in-bounds pass from Reale, Duncan flipped the ball to Carrabino, who was fouled, and made two clutch free throws to shrink the Crusader lead to only one point...
Over the past decade, however, the ranks of the devotees began to shrink. The paper grew phlegmatic, just as the downtown around it slid into decline, just as downtowns practically everywhere did the same. (To its credit, or tenacity, the Press-Scimitar was wheezing "Forward, Memphis!" to its dying day.) Circulation fell from 127,000 in 1973 to "less than 80,000" this year. Downtown itself was turned into a mall to compete with suburban malls-the same kind of desperate and characterless rearrangement happening all over the country-and still suburbanites clung to the perception of a ubiquitous downtown...