Jonathan Fair, an executive vice president at Economic Development Corporation, said that the flurry of development activity was spurred, in part, by the shrinking number of city-owned parcels there.
Homelessness is not simply a result of the bad economy; it is also caused by the shrinking number of affordable housing options available to poor and working people in New York City.
That problem, and the shrinking number of destinations offered by US Airways, has prompted even some of the airport's biggest fans to turn elsewhere.
Consider the shrinking number of telephone lines.
Asked by Crowley if he thought the president had been successful in improving the nation's image abroad, which she said might be evidenced by the seemingly shrinking number of anti-American protests on the streets of foreign nations, Rumsfeld objected.
The effort is being led by a shrinking number of companies that pay for health coverage for millions of retired workers -- notably General Motors, Ford, Verizon, SBC Communications, I.B.M. and Caterpillar.
All of the current nine attended two law schools; their clerks mainly come from seven law schools; cases are argued by a shrinking number of highly skilled oral advocates; a shrinking pool of journalists cover the arguments.
"The growing population of pensioners is being funded by a relatively shrinking number of people in employment", says Paul Sweeting, a University of Kent actuarial science professor.
By 1945, due to a shrinking number of operational units and stepped up production, equipment shortages were a thing of the past.
The deal, which is expected to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission as early as today, would reshape the industry landscape by shrinking the number of global competitors to four from five and creating a music company that would be second in market share only to the Universal Music Group of Vivendi.
Here in Washington, officials have cut the summer school budget by 70percentt, shrinking the number of students who can attend to no more than 10,000, from 22,000 last year.
