Word: shrunk
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...welfare purposes as they saw fit with a few provisos: for example, half of all single parents receiving welfare had to work at least 30 hours per week. Conveniently enacted in a buoyant economy, the bill has so far met with near-universal acclaim and welfare rolls have shrunk by 60 percent since it went into effect...
...constituents are—big business and industry. In his latest budget, Bush flatly declined to reauthorize the tax on high-polluting industries that once kept the environmental cleanup trust fund—known as the Superfund—self-sustaining. The fund, which was created in 1980, has shrunk from billions of dollars to less than $100 million today without the corporate contributions...
Without seeking the approval of or even consulting Congress, Bush has significantly increased the powers of federal law enforcement, shrunk the attorney-client privilege for those suspected of being terrorists and detained thousands of Arab men without due process. He has granted himself the power to try terrorist suspects in secret military tribunals rather than in open civilian court, and he has signed orders eliminating some of the restrictions governing the conduct of CIA operatives abroad. He even signed an order making it more difficult for historians to get access to presidential papers...
...newly diminished body, his slender arms and gaunt cheeks belie his exuberance. He doesn't look like he has been eating much. This gentle incarceration in the Veteran's Hospital has reduced even his hunger. It is as if his girth has shrunk to fit his confinement. His aching knees give him the peg-legged gait of an ageing cowboy who has been riding too long. He looks out at the world through bloodshot eyes...
...central mystery of the tape had little to do with its content and more with the process by which it had been made public. Why had the Americans produced it now? And so the tape became the perfect example of a wider truth: technologies like television may have shrunk the world, but they have not given it a common understanding...