Word: shrunk
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...leave his shop by the dozens each week, but these days, not even discounts of 15-18% can draw in the same number of paying of customers. "We used to sell 120 to 150 cars per month at this store," Wang says. "But starting from November, the number has shrunk to 90." The reason, he says, is simple: "The economic crisis...
...labor-friendly President-elect appears poised to reverse the ruling. And coupled with an economic crisis that has shrunk Harvard’s endowment by an unprecedented 22 percent in the four months since July 1, the change could spark a resurgence of unionization among teaching assistants...
...prices. So for the first 11 months of 2008, GM's sales have fallen 21.9%. While that is comparable to Ford and Chrysler (down 20.6% and 27.7% respectively), it's far worse than Asian competitors. Toyota is down 13.4% this year, Honda has declined just 5.4%, and Nissan has shrunk by 9.1%. They will be far better positioned to rebound once the market recovers...
...true that shoppers intend to spend a larger share of their holiday dollars online this year, with 36% of consumers saying they will spend half their shopping budget on the Web, up from 32% last year, according to a Nielsen Online survey. But overall budgets have shrunk, as tapped-out consumers have grown increasingly anxious about the economy. As a result, people are trading down in the stores they frequent and the number of items they buy. Case in point: the most popular product seen on BlackFriday.info's shopping lists was Wal-Mart's Batman and Spider-Man pajama sets...
...student activism that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...