Word: shrunk
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...phenomenon that has been plaguing small merchants in European cities for more than a decade. In that time, the number of American-style megastores and shopping malls around Madrid has more than doubled, from 96 to 210, even as the amount of small- and medium-sized businesses has shrunk by a quarter, from 87,000 to 62,500. "Like it or not, suburban sprawl is happening in Europe," says Mills Corp. CEO Laurence C. Siegel. "We are going to serve as the downtown for the southern reaches of Madrid." He predicts Xanadú will create more than...
...Crimson started the second half at a fevered pitch. The Zoomies’ lead slowly shrunk over more than 25 minutes, and Harvard had the score tied at 37 with less than 13 minutes to play...
...reservist husband Randy was earning as a lineman for Sprint. He left three months ago for what could be two years with the 350th Civil Affairs Command in Hungary. Michelle fixed the dryer herself to save the service charge, but then the car broke down. Their savings account has shrunk to $175, and groceries alone cost $800 a month. When Randy asks how things are going, Michelle tries to change the subject. "I hate to tell my husband when he calls how bad things really are," she says...
While the size of tuition increases shrunk throughout the 1990s, this will mark the third year in a row in which tuition increases have grown...
...proposal for preregistration is a clumsy attempt to solve a deeper structural problem, which is that thanks to increased financial aid for doctoral candidates, the pool of potential TFs has shrunk considerably in recent years,” says Palmer. Many of the kinds of financial aid that doctoral candidates receive these days prohibit them from teaching—outside agencies that are giving grants want graduate students to spend all their time on their research, not teaching undergraduates...