Word: shrunk
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...normal models’ remained, but found none; everyone in the pages of Glamour, regardless of what ethnicity they pretended to represent, was some version of the metallic she-bot clan. The color palate that had been too small to include the likes of me had now shrunk even farther: for summer it’s bronze or it’s stay at home...
...this, Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee Year, one question faces her subjects: What do you give a monarch who has (or has had) almost everything, including entire swaths of Africa? For Gibraltar, the best gift for a Queen whose dominion has shrunk in each decade of her reign would probably be loyalty. And in this outpost of the Empire, support for the Crown is still solid. As a rock...
...sermon. In an article published last month and posted on REVEAL’s site, Dave Anderson, the mind behind RightCyberUp, attacks the BCC’s obsession with and manipulation of statistics. According to Anderson, of the 10 largest BCC congregations in America, six actually shrunk during 2001. The church, in fact, saw its greatest exodus yet between 1999 and 2001: For every five baptized, four members left the church. The BCC, he claims, manipulates its numbers by baptizing children of current members and by focusing on “restorations” (bringing “fallaways?...
...last year has been rough for Harvard. First there was that incident in Mass. Hall, then Brother Cornel got all red in the face, and now the endowment has shrunk to a paltry $18.3 billion, approximately $7.8 billion of which belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS). With only 5.5 times the GDP of Haiti in the bank the prudent penny-counters at the Harvard Corporation have decided to play it safe and tighten the purse strings. In dollars the amount of money paid out of the endowment will be only 2 percent larger than the amount paid...
Striking has a long and venerable history in America, and though union membership has shrunk in the last few decades, the demonstrable power of the strike has not. One need only look to the baseball strike of 1994 or the United Parcel Service strike in the summer of 1997 to see how persuasive a strike can be to recalcitrant management...