Word: shrunk
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Halle may be a lot more prosperous than it was 20 years ago, but it's still far from being a happy place. Its population has shrunk dramatically, falling by more than one-quarter to 230,000 since 1990 as young people have left to find jobs elsewhere. Despite the exodus, and a birthrate that has dwindled to almost nothing, the town still has an unemployment rate of about 14%, double that in the old West Germany. And as a new economic crisis strikes - this time a global one - Halle isn't immune. Its economy has crashed in the past...
...area designated by the Army as a so-called safe zone. Over the weekend, the Army announced that it had re-demarcated the safe zone, chopping it down to just 2.5 km long. The Army did not specify how it informed civilians that their safe area had been shrunk; in the past, it would use loudspeakers positioned on the front line...
...party has shrunk to its base, it has catered even more to its base's biases, insisting that the New Deal made the Depression worse, carbon emissions are fine for the environment and tax cuts actually boost revenues - even though the vast majority of historians, scientists and economists disagree. The RNC is about to vote on a kindergartenish resolution to change the name of its opponent to the Democrat Socialist Party. This plays well with hard-core culture warriors and tea-party activists convinced that a dictator-President is plotting to seize their guns, choose their doctors and put ACORN...
Could there be a worse time to start an airline? OpenSkies lifted off last June, as the global economy was seizing up. Even though airlines got cost relief via collapsing jet-fuel prices, the deepening recession has caused demand for seats to fall faster than supply could be shrunk. The result: airlines are suffering, as usual...
...told Congress that he was willing to "sacrifice some worthy priorities" to make his budget responsible. White House aides say that the president has already made significant sacrifices by scaling back his campaign promises in the current budget. To make the numbers balance under a rosier outlook, Obama shrunk the size of the "Make-Work-Pay" tax credit by 20%, to $800 per family. He slowed down his foreign aid spending plans, scrapped a plan to reduce income taxes for the elderly, and proposed higher taxes for wealthy taxpayers who make charitable contributions...