Word: shrunken
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...would the campaigns be especially thrilled by a shrunken press presence. "I know these lights and cameras are a little distracting," Alexander said in a small church basement in Londonderry, New Hampshire, "but I'm really glad to see them...
Harbison, who lives in Cambridge, is one of the most accessible modern composers. He has all the proofs of success in today's shrunken musical world: a Pulitzer Prize, for his 1987 opera "The Flight into Egypt," a professorship and commissions from major orchestras. But success for a composer in 1995 is not what it was even 50 years ago; the audience for Harbison's music, like the audience at Paine Hall on Sunday, is mainly other musicians and musical scholars. The concert, which featured Harvard students performing three short chamber works, illustrated some of the reasons...
...less of a foregone conclusion that a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate would look to the trinity of law, medicine and business for life-long employment. Some argue that we have witnessed the evolution of a so-called "New Class," with a bias towards hyper-professionalism. Or, we could see the shrunken job market as the primary source of this trend toward steady, lucrative employment...
Even at that level, however, some high-paid union members with working spouses would be hit. It is perhaps a measure of organized labor's success -- at least for the shrunken ranks of its members -- that David Saltz, an AFL- CIO spokesman, protests that "just because something hurts upper-income people, that doesn't make it progressive...
...reading a defendant's heart and mind. In the end, the verdicts will hinge largely on the jurors' reactions to the brothers' graphic stories of parental abuse. Did the young men concoct the details to mask their desire to dip freely into their family's $14 million estate -- shrunken by spending binges, attorneys' fees and other costs to $800,000 -- without the interference of their controlling parents? Or were the comfortable years the brothers spent in Princeton, N.J., an elaborate lie, a filial cover-up for the sodomizing and death threats by their parents? And if the jurors believe...