Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge and Boston, there are a lot of important events and issues that do not get coverage. They certainly don't appear in the Gazette, the University's award-winning company newsletter. And they don't appear in other student publications like the Independent, whose news section has dramatically shrunk in size since I first came to Harvard...
While the Oslo Accords designated that 90 percent of the West Bank would eventually be under Palestinian control, this number has shrunk to 40 percent under the Wye Memorandum. How much more will it shrink before the final status is decided...
...honest about the Glenn trip. The attempt to sell it as science, though entirely understandable, is entirely laughable. This enormous expense--and considerable risk--to pick up a datum or two about geriatrics? How our horizons have shrunk. Space flight was once about destiny, not telemetry. Three decades ago, Kennedy spoke for the nation when he ringingly declared, "We choose to go to the moon." What have we to say now? "We choose to study Metamucil digestion in microgravity...
...that the economic Chernobyl of Russia, which exports nothing but dirt-cheap oil and old CCCP hockey jerseys, should have absolutely no impact on the average American wallet. The bad news, of course, is that it's taking your retirement fund to the cleaners -- and it's coming back shrunk. Blame it on the traders, those skittish little folk who, after months of buying like mad (and making you rich) for absolutely no reason, are gazing up gapemouthed at CNBC's clips of W.C. Yeltsin and seeing...
...drug, Herceptin--the first to target a genetic defect in breast-cancer cells--has shrunk tumors by turning off the signal that tells cells to divide. In a study, Herceptin increased survival an average of three months for women with advanced cancer. Researchers hope for more dramatic effects if it's given at earlier stages of the disease. Herceptin might get fda approval as early as this fall...