Those who believe the private sector can only function by shrinking the capacity of the public sector may be giving up their ability to protect citizens against public emergencies.
As the Afghan war continues to rage, with varying degrees of fighting in 20 of the country's 34 provinces, health workers have found that the places where they can function are shrinking.
Expert correspondents were on site instead of anchors flown in to stand in front of the latest scene of strife, tragedy or comedy.Since General Electric bought RCA, thus gaining NBC, and Disney bought ABC, and Westinghouse got CBS, each network's news function has shrunk under the control and influence of non-broadcasters.
The increasing rate of female entry into international migration in the 2000s is a likely function of shrinking economic opportunities in the home country as well as the growth of gender-segmented labour markets in receiving countries (Table 2).
These estimation techniques pose a penalty term on the coefficients in objective function and shrink the estimates of the coefficients towards zero relative to the maximum likelihood estimates.
Ridge regression adds an extra term to the likelihood function to shrink the regression coefficients by an amount depending on the variance of the covariates.
The drive to cut management layers and to farm out ancillary functions further shrank the training grounds.
The group has long advised papers on changing technology, business practices and law, but those functions have shrunk along with resources.
Existing remedies for the full range of prostate issues involve drugs to improve sphincter function; drugs to shrink the organ; surgery to reduce prostate size or you can try the full "Andrew Lloyd Webber".
F2 is the set of all first-link successors of the articles in F1, F3 is the set of all first-link successors of F2, and so forth, up to a point FN where all successors of FN are themselves in FN (in other words, FN+1 = FN), such that further applying the successor function does not shrink the set of articles any more.
