Word: shrunk
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...think that the sociology department is concerned that it will be shrunk," she says...
There are 3.7 million Soviet soldiers, sailors and air force personnel, down from 5 million, but still the largest military force in the world. Although some units have been pulled back into Russia as the Soviet empire has shrunk, many remain virtually marooned in far-flung outposts defending a U.S.S.R. that no longer exists: 260,000 Soviet troops in eastern Germany, 45,000 in Poland, 120,000 in the independent Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The Fourth Army remains billeted in Azerbaijan, its unhappy assignment to prevent bloodshed between militant Azerbaijanis and Armenians -- two peoples...
Although campaign budgets have shrunk this year, there are still tremendous differences in the candidates' bottom lines--differences that can be explained by the type of campaign each candidate chooses...
...consistently frustrated the feminists, anyone hoping to defeat him on women's issues in 1992 may have an uphill battle. The gender gap, which is the difference in support between men and women, for a President yawned as wide as 14% in the 1988 campaign. It has now shrunk to only...
...worldwide search for adoptable children is driven by classic causes: faltering domestic supply and rising demand. The number of babies available for adoption in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has declined as birthrates have shrunk and legal abortion has expanded. In addition, the taboo against unmarried motherhood -- that mainstay of Victorian novels -- has virtually disappeared, removing another source of homeless infants. In the U.S., 65% of the white babies born to single mothers were given up for adoption in 1966, but 20 years later that figure was down to 5%. National statistics are not kept, but some experts place...