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...going to keep score. She doesn't think in those terms, and you couldn't get her to talk in those terms." Friends say Reno has no regrets about not being part of Clinton's inner circle. As a White House aide remarked, "The inner circle has shrunk to the size of a Cheerio, anyway...
...question once covered the entire tip of Florida -- about 4 ! million acres of wetland stretching from Lake Okeechobee in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. For centuries it was treated like a huge swamp to be drained, farmed and, ultimately, paved. Now the acreage has shrunk to 2 million, and what remains is under pressure from a population growing by 600 people...
...problem for outsiders is to square what sometimes appears to be a Persian lamb with a notably lion-like personality. The superficial prosperity of Tehran is illusory. Because of war and runaway population growth -- estimated at 3.6% a year, though that may be declining -- per capita economic output has shrunk about 40% since 1979. Many factories are running at only 40% to 50% of capacity...
...even Ober, for all his gush about freeing Dan to report from the field, admits the goal is better numbers. In the 12 years since Rather took over for Walter Cronkite, the show's share of the audience has shriveled by a third. Meanwhile, Tom Brokaw's piece has shrunk only 10%, and Peter Jennings' has held steady -- heroic achievements in this twilight-of-the-networks...
RIGHTLY OR WRONGLY, U.S. LABOR LEADERS ARE convinced that unrelenting hostility from a Republican White House is a major reason why union membership has shrunk to a five-decade low -- 16% of the work force. Ronald Reagan set the tone in 1981 by not only firing illegally striking air-traffic controllers but also decreeing a lifetime ban on rehiring them. Now Bill Clinton has let it be known that he is considering taking back those controllers (maybe 3,000 of an original 11,400 strikers) who still want their old jobs. As further proof that he wants an entirely different...