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...field of international exchanges, we have allowed inflation to erode the Fulbright Program to the point that it supports less than half of the students and scholars that it did when I was a Fulbright scholar more than 30 years ago. The Peace Corps too has shrunk to a level less than half its former size...
...awake. "At 8:30, there wasn't a soul in here," she says. "Business has gone down 50% in the past year." The house she and her husband Perry bought outside Anchorage two years ago for $120,000 is now appraised at $90,000. The mortgage payments have not shrunk along with the Greenwoods' income. "It's all we can do to hang on," she says...
Harvard's 5-0 advantage shrunk to 5-4 when Yale grappler Charles Lee bested Courtney Henry, 12-4, in the 126-lb. bout, but the Crimson's Jeff Pelletier (134-lb.) notched two takedowns of Paul Jaskot in the opening period to post a 4-2 victory...
...Firestone's restructuring, while reducing its debt load, has failed to improve its standing in the market. The company's sales have shrunk by one- third since 1979, and its position in the worldwide business has fallen from No. 2 to No. 3. Firestone can only hope that as the first to slim down, it may also be the first to enjoy fully the benefits of greater efficiency and lower costs. Says Nevin: "The pruning we've done is pretty severe, but this company is beginning to grow again...
...miles or so in diameter and is so dense that a cubic inch would weigh 100 billion tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance is a white dwarf, a dying star once comparable in size and mass to the sun that has burned up its fuel and shrunk to about three times the size of the earth. But the dwarf still glows like an ember as it slowly radiates away the last of its heat, and, while nowhere near as squeezed as a neutron star, it is still thousands of times as dense...