In the haphazard transition to democracy under Boris N. Yeltsin, conventional forces bore the brunt of downsizing and shrinking budgets.
People with knowledge of G.M.'s plans say the automaker may eliminate one or more of its eight domestic brands and downsize its manufacturing capacity to match its shrinking market share.
"Downsizing" is not an update of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids," and anyone hoping to see Paul go mano a mano with a Chihuahua, say, will be frustrated.
But most Americans have little interest in shrinking their car-buying dreams; when they stoop to downsizing, what they're really saying is that small cars must grow to accommodate them.
The charity is downsizing at an uncertain time, as government financing continues to shrink.
These facilities function as permanent vacation colonies or retirement homes that match the environmental advantage of downsizing with a personal incentive to do so; when people are shrunk, their wealth is increased, by a factor of about eighty-two.
It will be a long and slow death, but as newspapers and radio slump into lower and lower single figures, it's a given that the presence of both will shrink; we're already seeing massive across the board downsizing now in print media.
Thus, Payne launches the exhilarating third of "Downsizing," the virtual documentary about the process and experience of shrinking, or, as the characters call it (repurposing Steve Martin's 1977 catchphrase), "getting small".
In April 2009, Governor Crist announced a second downsizing of the deal, necessitated again, he said, by the state's shrinking economy.
He predicts that their parents, who are "downsizing, streamlining and simplifying" their lifestyles as they become empty-nesters, are also likely to shrink their vehicular footprint.
