Word: shrunk
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These torrents have poured in just as companies have rediscovered merger mania and thereby taken countless shares off the trading boards. The supply has shrunk further as companies have bought back bushels of their own shares. Corporate America repurchased nearly $170 billion of its equities last year. Coca-Cola, whose price rose 42% in 1996, helped the increase along by declaring its intention to swallow as many as 206 million shares of Coke, or 8.3% of the company's outstanding common stock...
...felt in your belly is exceeded only by the pain in your behind. Domestic carriers are flying at an average 70% capacity, the highest since World War II. But legroom, as measured by the distance between the seat in front of you and the back of your own, has shrunk from 34 in. in coach 20 years ago to an average of 31 in. today. Doesn't sound like much, but remember that the trend in human girth is running opposite: Americans are getting bigger. The cush has been taken out of the cushions too, from...
...just signed. In 1992 it would have been a wild, drunken Republican dream that by 1996 a 60-year-old entitlement like Aid to Families with Dependent Children would be demolished, the deficit reduced 60% and falling, a balanced budget pledged by 2002, the federal work force shrunk by 250,000 people--and that a Democratic President would have pushed for or okayed them all. Clinton won the battle, but the Republicans...
Likewise, Linson says that the Medical School's Native American community has in fact shrunk over his four years there, with only one student in the current first-year class...
...leading the charge to restore the majesty of the mainframe by giving its System/390 mainframes a complete makeover. The size of the machines has shrunk some 80%, and prices have dropped nearly 90%, to an average of $5 million. While mainframes still function as the old-fashioned workhorse for payroll departments and number-crunching scientists, they have also expanded into hipper new markets like the Internet, where they act as network servers. IBM even changed its trademark color to yellow or red stripes. "We don't even call them mainframes anymore," says Linda Sanford, an IBM general manager...