Word: shrunk
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...years. I have saved and saved and saved so that I could afford some of the nice things that I never allowed myself when I was young," says the retired retail manager. "Now I find because of other people's stupidity that the money I have saved has shrunk...
...credit crunch is also crunching funding for new clean-energy projects. When the global economy was surging over the past several years, fossil fuel prices were surging as well; the cost of oil exceeded $150 a barrel at one point this year. The economic slowdown has shrunk those prices just as quickly, with oil now dipping below $95 a barrel. That makes renewable energy projects like wind and solar, which have to compete with fossil fuels on straight cost until a carbon price is passed, less attractive. Michael Liebreich, the chairman of the research group New Energy Finance, argued...
...become a powerful senator who’s spent decades in Washington. Unfortunately, though, we can’t hear about the latter achievements because they alienate the candidate from the people they may one day lead. Empathy and sympathy, necessary as they are in a president, have shrunk our candidates and nipped off the interesting stories of their “improbable journeys” at the very beginning.Rachel A. Stark ’11, a Crimson news writer, is planning to be a social studies concentrator in Currier House...
...Texas, harvesting of peyote has been licensed since the 1970s for use in the Native American Church. But the number of legal peyote harvesters, known as peyoteros, has shrunk from two dozen to just three. Most of the land in South Texas where peyote grows is privately held (Texas law prohibits removal of cactus from public land), so peyoteros must pay landowners to access their ranchland. The job is hardly worth the hazards, however: rugged land populated with dangerous wildlife and, sometimes, even more dangerous smugglers. And the fees that go to absentee landowners - a few hundred dollars a year...
...support for the dissenters in the Pennsylvania decision, Fried countered, ''I think what we have here is a shift in the (abortion) balance.'' Pro-lifers swiftly followed Fried's lead, pointing out that while Roe vs. Wade had passed the court by 7 to 2, pro-abortion majorities had shrunk to 6 to 3 in a 1983 case, and last week to 5 to 4. At the convention of the National Right to Life Committee in Denver, a spokeswoman cheered, ''Seven- two! Six-three! Five-four! We are one vote away from restoring full protection for unborn children!'' National Right...