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...action, and later endorsed his candidacy, as it has in the past, this time dubbing him "The Restaurant Mayor." Schanberg treated the issue with a degree of incredulity, saying the mayor's intervention on behalf of the chef was, "Big news in a city where the newspapers have shrunk to four in number and suffer from frequent bouts of sleeping sickness...
With so much attention directed at the FSLIC as the rescuer of last resort, many experts have begun wondering whether that fund is adequate. The increasing number of federal rescue missions has shrunk the FSLIC's reserve pool from a longtime average of 1.2% of all deposits to just .76%, or about $6 billion. As a result, the FSLIC has asked Congress for permission to begin charging higher insurance premiums to thrifts that get into risky investments. That would create a larger reserve pool and provide an incentive for sound management...
...already in use, software manufacturers can prosper merely by selling new programs to old customers. Software sales jumped 36% last year, to 62 million programs. Even so, stiff competition has given the industry a high mortality rate. In the past two years the number of major software producers has shrunk from more than 200 to about...
...only in the sense that he comes to reject his mission as simply signing up souls for Christ. When he arrives as a young man the motto is "Evangelize the world in this generation." After 40 years of rebellions, war, Japanese internment and Communist revolution, his ambition has shrunk to feeding the few people left in his village...
Wouk knows all the storytelling tricks and uses them freely. His minichapters seem calculated for attention spans shrunk by 40 years of television; he has increased his quotient of scatological humor; he injects sermonettes on foreign policy and domestic relations; and he provides walk-on parts for celebrities. Should there be any confusion, Marlene Dietrich is the "woman with beautiful crossed legs," and Ernest Hemingway is the burly guy with the mustache who says, "Hammering out a style takes work." He might have added that if you hammer too long, you get pulp...