Word: shriveling
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...means of organizing into special-interest lobbies to protect their paychecks. Corporate employees such as computer programmers and engineers have experienced a moderate loss in buying power, and librarians have seen the purchasing strength of their paychecks shrink by 11% since 1967, while college professors have had theirs shrivel...
Hookers, happy or otherwise, do not necessarily lack the puritan virtues of hard work, thrift and capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Lasch, a history professor at Rochester University, legitimately finds cracks of doom in our sanguinity. His thunderings shrivel our "ironic detachment," his term for a sense of humor...
...criticism aimed at Jerusalem is at least in part deserved. At several crucial steps in the peace process, it has been Israel rather than Egypt that has moved grudgingly, split hairs and seemed to shrivel the spirit of the proposed agreement with excessive legalisms. A glaring example is the stubbornness with which the Begin government has pursued its policy of expanding Israeli settlements in the territories occupied since...
...treaties are torpedoed, says Panamanian Economist Guillermo Chapman, unemployment could reach 30% and "growth" could shrivel to minus 3% yearly. It is only fair to add that if the treaties are ratified and the economy fails to recover, the Panamanians will have no one to blame but themselves...
That question transcended hockey. Without deferred-income provisions, player salaries would shrink or even shrivel. The death of an obscure Cleveland hockey team could shake all sport. Barons, hell. They looked like the Cleveland Sarajevos...