Word: shrinking
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...SHRINK ON RETAINER...
...suddenly find themselves in a tough spot: they desperately want to boost the politically palatable H-1B visas, which go to educated people classified as temporary workers (though almost half apply to stay before they reach their six-year limit, according to estimates). But the traditional anti-immigrant politicians shrink from the prospect of linking the visas to a provision embracing illegal (and often likely Democratic) immigrants--even though low-skilled workers are also in demand. Then again, rejecting the amnesty proposal could alienate immigrant voters during an election year. Says Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum...
...board, though. The effort to preserve an authentic Kennedy-and-Roosevelts-slept-here fell in the dorms has created wide discrepancies in room size and quality. Three months from now you could be showing your quarters to a photographer from House Beautiful. Or you could be consulting a shrink about your newly-acquired claustrophobia...
Congratulations, ace. America's unprecedented economic gains were beaten out of your work-obsessed hide, and what have you got to show for it? A few extra bucks to pay the shrink or the barkeep? A promotion that bumps you up to 60 hours a week? A pager? The bone they haven't thrown you is the one you desperately need--more time away from the salt mine...
...Suggestions? John McCain and the rest of the campaign-finance crowd are focused on the money that comes in; the British cap campaign spending, counting on the peddling problem to shrink accordingly. Both limitations are likely to run into free-speech problems - but then again, why should rich people have the loudest voice, whether the voice belongs to the elected official himself, as in Corzine's case, or to his contributors? In any case, now that Corzine, who made his $400 million in an instant when Goldman Sachs went public, has apparently solved the problem of why rich...