But cells have been hard to shrink to an appropriate size.
For now, though, the Giuliani administration is pushing hard to shrink the group of families reaching their federal time limits, and the letters are part of that campaign.
But it remains hard to shrink engines, batteries, mechanical actuators and control electronics to the point where they are small and light enough to fly without impairing their performance.
Shortly after next week's Democratic convention, Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign will stop raising money and turn that job over to the party, which is working hard to shrink a multimillion-dollar Republican advantage.
The lesson they should learn from her is that it is very hard to shrink the size of government even when a strong leader has complete control of the legislature, that it takes many years of arduous work to do so and that at the end of the day it won't shrink very much.
Put an ice cube on the gum to make it hard and shrink.
This makes it harder to shrink.The more likely outcome, says Ms Kaplan, is that WorldCom's competitors will pick off its assets at bargain prices.
But Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, frets over the risks of doing so: a bigger balance-sheet that is harder to shrink later; impaired markets; and financial instability, a euphemism for bubbles.
This makes it harder to shrink, despite a series of recently announced layoffs.The more likely outcome, says Ms Kaplan, is that WorldCom's competitors will pick off its assets at bargain prices.
It has promised to wipe out its budget deficit, projected at $820m this fiscal year, by 2016.Such austerity could further hobble growth, making it harder to shrink debt ratios.
