Word: shrunken
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Given the challenges that a greatly shrunken UAW now faces, future president King may soon wish he had a mandate from the rank and file members...
...focusing very intensively on where we can reduce the scale and pacing of our capital projects to match our new resources,” said Dan Shore, Harvard’s chief financial officer, in an interview last Friday. But he noted that even a “shrunken down” series of capital expenditures would remain sizable simply due to the University’s large size, and that as a result, “at some point during the next year or so we could be going to market again [for more debt...
...they showed up: In all shapes and sizes. At Gucci, shrunken jackets and tapered pants gave the suit a rock-concert vibe. Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein also played with proportion, showing combinations of cropped cuts. Metallic touches added to the '80s appeal...
Churchill believes our early contact with our shrunken, strange-looking cousins was probably complex and varied and was likely one of many factors that led to their extinction. "I suspect that interactions were different all over the place, much like the European colonizers had different interaction with other races. In some places the interaction was peaceful and there was interbreeding and cultural exchange, and in other places it was pretty violent." In other words, the Neanderthals may have disappeared, but the species that Shanidar 3 came into contact with in his Iraqi home - a creature capable of both cooperation...
While the recession hasn't spared any age group, it's been particularly brutal for older Americans who were counting on their (now shrunken) nest eggs to last through their retirement years. To supplement their stash, an increasing number of seniors are turning to reverse mortgages, which function essentially as a cash advance on their home equity, repaid only when they sell their home or die. The loans are available to those 62 and over, and lenders have to eat the difference if a home ends up declining in value. In the three months after February--when a provision...