Word: shrunk
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...rather bedraggled figure, a symbol of empire in a postcolonial age, when most of the world is celebrating the breakup of empires, not their inception. The facts ! about Columbus always mattered less, to his admirers, than the uses he could be put to. Those uses have, by now, drastically shrunk...
That dreaded octopus was both shrunk and beheaded. The KGB's 230,000-strong armed forces were put under the control of the regular army and its governing collegium was dismissed. Remaining bosses of the agency that for decades terrorized millions of Soviet citizens were put on notice that they would themselves be investigated to determine their roles, if any, in the coup. New Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov had earlier pledged to remove most of the ministry's collegium, its top leadership...
...1970s, farmers along the Arkansas River, a separate system from the Colorado, began selling their water rights to the mushrooming cities of Colorado Springs and Aurora. Prices soon soared to more than $700 an acre-foot. Now what used to be 70,000 acres of irrigated land has shrunk to 5,000 acres, and the closing of dozens of farms has wrecked the local tax base. "We're drifting back to dry-land desert," says farmer Orville Tomky, who has farmed in the county for 40 years. "Everything is slowly drying up. The cities have bought nearly all the water...
...limitations on loans and investments did hurt. About half the American companies that once operated in South Africa have pulled out, and the value of their holdings has shrunk from $2.5 billion to $1 billion. South Africa currently suffers a net capital outflow of about $2 billion a year; money needed to build up the country's industry has to be sent abroad instead to repay foreign loans. Partly in consequence, the once booming economy has stagnated. By some estimates, output of goods and services over the past 10 years has grown on average only around 1% a year (with...
There are signs that Israel, hard pressed by the cost of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jewish immigrants, is open to arms-limitation proposals that would help keep down its military outlays, which have already shrunk about 15% in the past three years. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has proposed a regional limitation on "nonconventional" weapons -- presumably meaning chemical and biological -- as a confidence-building measure between Israel and the Arab states. But so long as he gives no sign that Israel would bargain away its nuclear arsenal, Arab nations are unlikely to agree...