Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east, economic output has shrunk to a third of its preunification level, and the long-predicted rebound is not in sight...
...comprehensive GATT agreement, expected to boost global commerce substantially, U.S. and European negotiators need to settle their long-running dispute over agricultural subsidies. The U.S. has demanded that European governments trim their healthy price supports, although they have shrunk already under a recent reform package. The E.C. has agreed, but the two sides cannot come to terms on the details...
...industry as a whole, the outlook seems to be getting brighter, with many banks actually thriving. The total level of bank capital, their cushion against losses, is at its highest since 1966. Despite the weak economy, problem loans have shrunk nearly 6% so far this year. Total bank profits zoomed to a record $15.5 billion in the first half of the year, up from $11.1 billion in the same period two years...
This fall my Core section has also pushed the distinction between "section" and an unpopular lecture course. At least the section was packed for the first two meetings. Last week, our ranks had shrunk to 15, but that was because, I suspect, we had a paper due that...
...workers through employment agencies and newspaper advertisements. Earning from $8 to $10 an hour, they crisscrossed New York City beseeching passersby to sign up before the state's Aug. 27th filing deadline. Elsewhere, Perot's bounty has subsidized the remains of his political operation. The Florida campaign, which has shrunk from 38 to 10 outposts, solicits donations through a newsletter. In South Carolina and other states, workers are hawking Perot bumper stickers, baseball caps and T shirts. But none of these offices could stay open without the $7,500 monthly stipends from Dallas to pay for rent, phones, utilities...