Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuine concern for the well-being of coastal communities, will probably lose in the end -- to the sea. Says Coastal Geologist Griggs: "In the long run, everything we do to stop erosion is only temporary." John Tesvich, a Louisiana oysterman, perhaps puts it more feelingly, "The land has shrunk. It looks like a lake out there. My heart sinks to see the land get lost...
...hasn't. After more than three unsuccessful years of searching for the killer, morale on the Green River task force has occasionally withered. The force has shrunk from 55 staffers last fall, its highest number, to the current complement, as personnel have been redeployed to join the fight against Seattle's growing drug problems...
Here's the trick--Tuck had shrunk...
...traded for more than $18 a share three months ago, plummeted last week to less than $1, triggering suits by flabbergasted stockholders. One investor is reported to have lost $7 million in the debacle. But the hardest hit was Minkow. Not only had his $100 million stock holdings shrunk to less than $6 million, but his oft announced dream of making ZZZZ Best the "General Motors of carpet cleaning" was irrevocably shattered. Once lionized as an emblem of what brash youth can do, he had become, almost overnight, a symbol of where overreaching ambition can lead...
...Ford and Reagan Administrations, the point was brought home in Reagan's first term when Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel told the Cabinet he would like to reduce the Office of Fossil Energy to 591 people but was stymied because Congress had decreed the office could not be shrunk below 754. "The efforts by Congress to micromanage the Executive business are most unfortunate," says Porter, who now teaches a course on the presidency at Harvard. It makes for good theater in the electronic age but, in Porter's view, the natural power of the presidency is being squandered...