Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the first dividend check arrived for her mother in February, however, the investment was already worth several thousand dollars less. It shrunk even further in March. But it was not until the Mother's Day weekend in May that Stasch learned from a newspaper article what her mother had really bought: far from being a safe investment, the fund was loaded with volatile securities called derivatives that had gone into a free-fall when interest rates shot up. "I told my family not to panic, but I was thinking, 'My God, what did I get into?"' Stasch says. Fearing...
CITIES: Honey, I Shrunk the Government...
While the SVR may have shrunk, U.S. intelligence officials say it is still active and highly professional. Harry Brandon, who retired two months ago as the FBI's deputy assistant director for intelligence, watched as Russian spies burrowed for U.S. secrets long after the Soviet Union disintegrated. "They're certainly collecting ((secrets)) in the economic and technology area," he says...
...report indicated that the pool of qualifiedminority applicants for faculty positions incolleges and universities has shrunk over the pastyear...
...toll on the company's shareholders and allies. Redstone concedes that the battle forced him to cough up some $1.5 billion more than he intended to pay when Viacom and Paramount unveiled their original merger agreement last Sept. 12. Since then the price of Viacom Class-B stock has shrunk more than 50%, falling from 56 3/4 to 25 3/4 last Friday as investors reckoned that the cost ! of the merger would hammer the company's profits for years...