Word: shrinking
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...Siebert, president of Germany's Kiel Institute of World Economics, predicted "roughly 3%" growth for the economy of the 15-nation European Union this year. But Siebert was worried that "the key question for Germany, France and Italy is whether they can get on a higher growth path" to shrink their high levels of unemployment. The Continent's major weakness, he said, was a comparative lack of private investment, which grew in Germany at one-quarter the U.S. rate over the past five years. A huge German corporate tax cut proposed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroder would make a big difference...
...today he calls himself "a proud conservative in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and my favorite, Theodore Roosevelt." But Reagan and Roosevelt represent very different traditions. Reagan passed tax cuts for the rich (McCain voted for them); Roosevelt called for a social safety net and graduated income tax to shrink the gap between rich and poor. And that sounds like McCain lately. "I'm not giving tax cuts for the rich," he says. Roosevelt's progressive-era reforms helped create government regulations; Reagan wanted to ease them. McCain again takes from both, and has not figured out how to reconcile...
JOHN ROCKER Bigoted barbs send Atlanta Brave to shrink. And we don't care if he ever gets back...
Though the majority of the Faculty denies that classes are too big at present, some say that class size has increased in recent years. More importantly, there is an almost unanimous agreement to shrink class sizes in the future...
...habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to the gym, to day care, to the PTA meetings--and end up at the shrink...