Word: shrinkly
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...daily. The vehicles will be carried on shuttle trains initially running at least every 15 minutes at peak periods and making the crossing in 35 minutes. Alternating will be passenger trains, while freight will trundle through in off-peak hours. For motorists, travel time between Paris and London will shrink somewhat, but for rail passengers the ride will be cut from 12 hours to three. The Chunnel will make rail and air roughly comparable in terms of the clock, if time spent getting to and from airports is counted...
...forced over 200 carriers to merge or disappear, the few remaining major companies are about to undergo another shake-out. Already wobbling badly, a couple of the weakest ones -- Pan Am and Eastern -- may disappear. Others, like TWA and Continental, may be forced to merge with stronger partners or shrink down to a more manageable size...
...this case some of the plaques start to shrink, almost imperceptibly at first, as the fatty material in its core migrates back into the bloodstream. Blood begins flowing more smoothly through the rejuvenated artery, and two years later, only 50% of the passage is blocked. The seemingly inexorable advance of cardiovascular disease has been reversed, and as the plaque continues to shrink, the risk of a heart attack has largely passed...
...spending programs, military and civilian, along with increased fees for many services would make up the lion's share of deficit reduction. Pentagon spending would fall a total of $67 billion during the first three years, not counting the cost of the Persian Gulf operation. Farm supports would shrink by $13 billion, civil service pensions by $8 billion, guaranteed student loans by $2 billion, assistance to veterans by $2.7 billion. Jobless workers would have to wait two weeks before receiving unemployment compensation...
...example -- but, with the economy heading into a recession, they will certainly be felt by those whose incomes are already being pinched. Similarly, the plan's proposed Medicare cuts will push some of the elderly poor into state-run Medicaid programs, even as many states see their revenues shrink. Indeed, among the plan's critics are Governors who fear that higher excise taxes will cut further into states' incomes, with estimated losses in the larger states running to hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of these inequities could be fine-tuned out of the plan later, but the fact remains...