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This fall, about 700 first-years applied for spots in the Freshman Seminar program but the program could accommodate only 230 students. And according to Pedersen, the Freshman Seminar program has shrunk almost by half since the 1980s...
...there is a Presidency that has shrunk, it's that of George W. Bush, whose best ideas are overshadowed by the worst of his predecessor. JAMES A. DITTES Westmoreland, Tenn...
...Clinton era they found Republicans in Congress hostile to the sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to close neighbors heavily invested in the long march of European union. Mainly because of Republican opposition, Washington owes back dues of some $1.65 billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses. It has stayed outside many important recent treaties that Europe endorses: the land mine convention, the International Criminal Court, the comprehensive test ban-and Bush sees no reason to change...
...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...