Word: shrunk
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...CNBC and now takes longer walks with his wife because he knows he has to stay in shape-he'll be working more years than he had thought. Fully one-third of Americans between 50 and 64 said they had decided to delay their retirement because their assets had shrunk in the market-and that was back in February. "There's no doubt there are more now," says G.O.P. pollster Frank Luntz. "They saw their retirement in the near future, and they watched it move away from them...
...would not have gotten this far, this fast, without Sam," says Icahn, who held ImClone shares last year but sold them months before the FDA rejection. It was in April 1999 that Shannon Kellum, 28 and diagnosed with incurable colon cancer, began taking Erbitux. Within months her tumors had shrunk to a fifth their previous size. Much of the hype around ImClone was built on that one success. ImClone was so eager to cash in that, according to the FDA, it mishandled the clinical trials, prompting the agency to deny its application...
...until now there has been no holistic approach to networks--just efforts to make storage or servers more efficient on their own, Horn says. And though the recession has shrunk technology budgets, financial constraints often encourage this kind of enhancement to efficiency. "The biggest demand for automation often occurs in economic downturns," he says. "I can't go to a company that doesn't say, 'I need to automate. I've got to get my costs down...
...Institute of Politics (IOP) found in its annual Campus Attitudes toward Politics and Public Service survey that 79 percent of students favored military action. While college students have traditionally been more trusting in diplomacy than the nation as a whole, in the wake of September 11th, the gap had shrunk. According to the IOP and an ABC news poll, 76 percent of college students supported military action against nations that assist or sponsor terrorism—close to the 87 percent of the general population that felt the same...
...suicide bombings in Israel. Workers at Ground Zero paused to honor the victims of Sept. 11 every time remains were removed from the rubble and to the firefighters who worked around the clock unearthing their own, it didn’t matter that the official death toll only shrunk as time went on. In Israel there wasn’t even time to pause to honor the dead, as each day brought with it a new collection of ferocious headlines. In the U.S. we could be thankful that for us, at least, terror was still just an event...