Music by Adele and Mr Blacc is hook-based and geared for mainstream radio play, but it has just enough grit and style to set it apart from the shrink-wrapped pop ballads from the likes of Rihanna, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber.
I can't, however, see them doing much good on the spending side, apart from aggressively shrinking the size of the defence budget in a post-Afghanistan landscape.
With only months to the election, and with no domestic policy to speak of, apart from shrinking the state back to 1948 levels and matching Ukip on immigration, he is forced to resort to war.
But Labour's victory, when it came, changed very little apart from shrinking the intended Polaris fleet from five submarines to four.
But, apart from a rapidly shrinking RINO rump, the G.O.P. officially maintains that the science is "uncertain," the scientists lack "integrity," and the government should be prohibited from doing anything about it.
Mr Mayberry at Intel said his company was investigating other ways, apart from shrinking components, to make processors more powerful and useful.
This model predicts that, apart from the very beginning and end of devolatilisation, there is an almost constant velocity for the shrinking core of raw coal.
Moreover, the volume of Saudi volunteers for jihad in such places as Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon appears to have markedly shrunk.In fact, apart from the increasing boldness of their nominal allies, the Taliban, in Afghanistan, al-Qaeda does not appear to be faring well.
According to the Greek government's own figures, the economy first contracted in the final quarter of 2008 and - apart from the odd quarter of weak growth - has been shrinking since.
