Word: shrunk
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...make a great strategic fit, his critics point out, but Vivendi is a far more manageable enterprise. Two-thirds of the debt is gone, and he plans to reduce it to just $5.99 billion by the end of the year. He has laid off about 3,000 employees and shrunk the company to 55,000 people, from more than 250,000 when he took over. Cash flow is positive again on $29.96 billion in revenues, operating profits are growing sharply, and the company promises shareholders it will resume paying a dividend...
...path to success - even its measure - are becoming increasingly murky, the subject of probing hearings this week by the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Restoring a semblance of security in Iraq is the immediate challenge facing the U.S. and its coalition, which has shrunk over the past week as Spain was joined by Honduras and the Dominican Republic in announcing its troops would be leaving. It's not yet over, but April has been the bloodiest month of the war, with some 93 coalition troops and upward of 1,000 Iraqis killed in clashes in the Sunni Triangle...
...right, and I could never gain 25 lbs. in the off-season. I just couldn't do it." Of course, with steroidophobia in the air, bulking up is suddenly not so chic. Giambi, who claims he lost only 4 lbs. over the winter, looks as if he's shrunk a few shirt, shorts and shoe sizes. "Spring training used to be an annual game of who got bigger," says Josh Suchon, an Oakland Tribune sportswriter who wrote a book on Bonds. "This year it's the game of who got smaller...
Republicans believe the number of swing voters this year, usually around 15%, has shrunk to no more than 7%, many of them Catholics who might be receptive to an amendment. What matters most to Karl Rove, the President's chief political adviser, is another number: 4 million. That's how many evangelical Christians he believes voted in 1996 but did not turn out in 2000 because the Bush campaign didn't inspire them. Rove will do anything now to light a fire under them. Skeptical Democrats think the fire is called gay marriage. But many swing voters are also...
...religiously-affiliated schools and the Washington decision supports public funding for explicitly religious courses of study. Even if the religious doctrines espoused by parochial schools rub off on the children who use the expanded voucher program, proponents argue that the Supreme Court hasn’t shrunk from funding religious study before. And three years from now, the once rock-solid division between Church and State comes tumbling down...