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...Manufacturers Association, the chancellor of the California State University system, executives from Viacom Inc. and Lucent Technologies, and other government and education leaders. Its call-to-action report, entitled Tough Choices or Tough Times, cites studies showing that the U.S. share of the world's college-educated workers has shrunk from 30% to 15% in recent decades and that, even after all the outsourcing of the past decade, some 20% of U.S. jobs remain vulnerable to automation or offshoring to educated workers overseas...
...Estimated height of Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain 3.7 m Estimated distance Everest has shrunk since 1975, according to Chinese geologists who said last week that the Himalayas have "peaked" and will perhaps grow smaller due to the effects of gravity on Asia's continental crust...
...other ideas, one devised by Rothschild and the other by Edwy Plenel, a former Le Monde editor who hopes to become Libé's editor in chief. Turning Libé around won't be easy. Losses are about €1 million a month, advertising has dwindled and readership has shrunk. That Libé is hard up isn't exactly news. For years it has been kept afloat partly by loans from sympathizers whose politics outweighed their business sense. "It was not a normal business," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum, who previously worked...
...committee reported that the MBTA police force has actually shrunk since 9/11, and that its forces are “far smaller” than those in London in proportion to the city’s population. This decrease in size has happened despite the fact that MBTA expenditures on police wages have increased from $13.2 to $21 million since...
...machines" like the online Drudge Report and talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. When Allen called an opponent's political operative by the racial slur macaca at a recent rally, the blogs touted the video, and the incident became a national story, contributing to a troubled campaign that has shrunk Allen's lead in his Senate race from double digits to 3 points...