Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope to perform with unquestioned success. The bulk of Rudenstine's time, however, is caught up in the kind of minutiae more appropriate for a small college president than the head of a major University. As a result, it seems, the office of the president of Harvard University has shrunk under Rudenstine's well-intentioned hand...
...1990s. He is a menace, a thug, a postcommunist villain who has cynically manipulated nationalism. He has blood on his hands. But his state does not have either the power or the ideological will to conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when he remilitarized the Rhineland in 1936, 50 million lives might have been spared...
...none of them married, trying to figure out a way to make a nice dollar in 1995. They already had good jobs, but they wanted something all their own, and being sharp lads, they knew this much: 1) good love is hard to find; and 2) the Internet has shrunk the planet, opening up a world of romantic options...
Orderly growth comes at a price. Smaller towns within the ring are submerged by crowding they might otherwise zone out. And within the dwindling buildable space of the ring, average lot size has shrunk almost in half over the past 20 years, from 13,000 sq. ft. to 6,700. Yet the median price of a single-family home has more than doubled in just 10 years, from $64,000 to $159,900. Once ranked by the National Association of Home Builders as among the most affordable U.S. cities for housing, Portland is now the third most expensive, just...
With the final two regular season games approaching this weekend, the roster for the Harvard women's hockey team has shrunk...