Word: shrunk
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...exemptions to lure business and jobs out to the projects, he says he was elected on promises to restore order, by residents of the city center and northern banlieue alike. "I went out myself and was horrified to see to what degree the state had withdrawn, law had shrunk away, and the Republic had retreated from these areas," he recalls. "This isn't about authoritative provocation, but it is saying 'enough is enough. It's time to be civilized...
...Assad’s sphere of influence has shrunk to a degree that he relies on very few people to stay in power,” he said. Asking Syria to investigate its own top level security officials is “equivalent to asking a Saudi thief to chop off his own hand...
...suggesting Kim and his minions have turned nice. Just more pragmatic. Their economy has shrunk an estimated 30% in the past five years, and persistent food shortages are threatening to turn into famine. Even their prized armed forces are deteriorating for lack of food, fuel and modernization. U.S. defense strategy is anchored on preparations to fight two major regional conflicts at almost the same time, and the Pentagon has long counted North Korea as one of the two. But that contingency may be fading. The North's leaders are now showing they are interested in survival, not destruction...
...hurricane would ultimately cost the federal government more than $300 billion, more than the combined cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to date. Mayor C. Ray Nagin had initially speculated that the death toll might reach 10,000, though a preliminary body recovery last week authorities shrunk those estimates. New Orleans, a city that had won fame among conventioneers and nighttime revellers, had become a waterlogged ghost town, patrolled by rescue workers and military police shouldering...
...fine reputations, but the district has decided to place most of its bets on the likes of Humboldt Park. Since 2001, it has expanded the number of K-8 schools from 12 to 48, with 14 more on the way. Meanwhile, the number of middle schools in Milwaukee has shrunk from 23 to 14. "Once young adolescents get to the sixth grade, the achievement level begins to decline a bit and disruptive behavior increases," says William Andrekopoulos, the superintendent of schools. "We're providing a number of different options," including some big middle schools, he notes, "but we know that...