Word: shrunk
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Amount the White House now projects the deficit will have shrunk to by 2009, which would be just...
...list of suspects is not short. Weinberger has acquired new critics within the Administration by opposing the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction proposal, which the President supports despite its provisions for cutting military spending. The Secretary's credibility on Capitol Hill has shrunk to the point where Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater bluntly told Weinberger at his most recent appearance, "You haven't answered any of our questions." Yet Reagan seemingly retains faith in his longtime and unquestionably loyal associate. When asked in Geneva whether he had any plans to fire Weinberger, the President responded with a blunt "Hell...
...bitter struggle over whether to remove her feeding tube--pitting her husband Michael against her parents, right-to-lifers and members of Congress--before she was allowed to die in March. The autopsy, vindicating Michael, showed her damage was irreversible, she had gone blind, and her brain had shrunk to half its normal size. Case closed, right? Not yet. Though the autopsy quieted even some of Michael's G.O.P. opponents, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who tried to keep Terri alive, said that because of "new information" not addressed in the autopsy, he has requested a probe into whether Michael delayed...
...newspapers. Since Britain's Times and Independent downsized fully last year, circulation has soared. Expect more to make the change. "Readers are bamboozled" by big papers, says Chisholm. And with the number of Web-based newspapers rising almost 11% last year, what can't be shrunk to fit can go online. - By Adam Smith...
...small. "Brains do not shrink proportionally to bodies in a species but remain relatively large," says Martin. "That's why the heads of small dogs, for example, are proportionally large for their bodies compared with larger dogs. To get a brain this size, H. erectus would have to have shrunk to about 3% of its previous 60-kg size. That's about the size of a house cat's." Martin says one thing would persuade him?more physical evidence: "Show me eight more similar skulls from the site and I'll shut...