Word: shrunk
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...owner would dare look in the eye. The tab for cleaning up after dogs comes to $10 million annually, or $50 for each of Paris' 200,000 hounds. Ad campaigns urging owners to pick up after Fido have produced only Gallic shrugs, and municipal officials have shrunk from imposing the fines already on the books-ranging from $170 to $500-for fear of losing votes...
...often," notes Helga Konrad, coordinator of a task force on trafficking in human beings recently set up in Vienna, "victims are jailed as prostitutes and traffickers allowed to go free." Economic conditions in Eastern and Central Europe are chiefly to blame. In Moldova, for example, the economy has shrunk by almost 50% over the past decade; average monthly salary is around $30. Four households out of five are living below subsistence levels, and more than 90% of people are materially worse off than they were under communism. Unemployment is so bad, according to one diplomat, that "all these girls have...
...years ago, Mohammad Omidian, 58, a general contractor from Orinda, Calif., had failed to respond to chemotherapy treatments for multiple myeloma that was eating away at his bones. He had shrunk 3 in. and was so weak, he says, "I could not sneeze without holding on to something." His doctors put him on Dendreon's experimental treatment Mylovenge, which required extracting dendritic cells from Omidian's blood, mixing them with molecules from myeloma cells and then returning them to the patient so they could deliver a swift kick to his immune system. Within two weeks, Omidian felt strong enough...
...results, however: Pledges were far more successful among 15 and 16-year-olds than among 18-year-olds. And perhaps unsurprisingly, the study?s authors also found that while teens responded well to being part of a group that took the pledges together, if the group grew or shrunk beyond certain points - and thus lost either its sense of exclusivity or a critical mass of peer pressure - the pledges were less likely to stick. The study did not address the effect of such pledges on sexual behaviors other than intercourse, including anal and oral sex, which are increasingly popular among...
...results, however: Pledges were far more successful among 15- and 16-year-olds than among 18-year-olds. And perhaps unsurprisingly, the study's authors also found that while teens responded well to being part of a group that took the pledges together, if the group grew or shrunk beyond certain points - and thus lost either its sense of exclusivity or a critical mass of peer pressure - the pledges were less likely to stick. The study did not address the effect of such pledges on sexual behaviors other than intercourse, including anal and oral sex, which are increasingly popular among...