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Although campaign budgets have shrunk this year, there are still tremendous differences in the candidates' bottom lines--differences that can be explained by the type of campaign each candidate chooses...
...consistently frustrated the feminists, anyone hoping to defeat him on women's issues in 1992 may have an uphill battle. The gender gap, which is the difference in support between men and women, for a President yawned as wide as 14% in the 1988 campaign. It has now shrunk to only...
...worldwide search for adoptable children is driven by classic causes: faltering domestic supply and rising demand. The number of babies available for adoption in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has declined as birthrates have shrunk and legal abortion has expanded. In addition, the taboo against unmarried motherhood -- that mainstay of Victorian novels -- has virtually disappeared, removing another source of homeless infants. In the U.S., 65% of the white babies born to single mothers were given up for adoption in 1966, but 20 years later that figure was down to 5%. National statistics are not kept, but some experts place...
...rather bedraggled figure, a symbol of empire in a postcolonial age, when most of the world is celebrating the breakup of empires, not their inception. The facts ! about Columbus always mattered less, to his admirers, than the uses he could be put to. Those uses have, by now, drastically shrunk...
That dreaded octopus was both shrunk and beheaded. The KGB's 230,000-strong armed forces were put under the control of the regular army and its governing collegium was dismissed. Remaining bosses of the agency that for decades terrorized millions of Soviet citizens were put on notice that they would themselves be investigated to determine their roles, if any, in the coup. New Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov had earlier pledged to remove most of the ministry's collegium, its top leadership...