Globo was still the dominant media company, but audience share was beginning to shrink, faced with competition from Hollywood and other Brazilian programmers.
For AMD, it means gaining access to a much bigger chunk of the console gaming industry, at a crucial juncture: the desktop and notebook PC market is shrinking, facing increasing encroachment from devices like the iPad, meaning there's less room to vie with Intel for market share in a space where Intel already clearly dominates.
The banking industry generally is shrinking, faced with slower economic growth, fewer money-making opportunities and tighter regulations.
But those Coltrane records I shrank from faced up to the idea of density and noise without fetishizing it, and didn't stop there.
They found that brow ridges shrank and faces shortened during the past 80,000 years, as our ancestors began to exhibit symbolic behavior and spread around the world.
As the economy shrank, Venezuela faced growing poverty and crippling shortages.
Countries with a stable or shrinking population face notable problems, including potential labor shortages and a shrinking tax base, but the challenges facing countries such as Burundi, Iraq, Niger, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen are an order of magnitude higher.
The goal, he told HuffPost, is to protect, advocate for and educate others about America's national monuments and parks, which he fears will disappear, shrink or face damaging development.
Almost immediately his hands, feet and face shrank significantly.
This year's class was the smallest in years as profit at Goldman has shrank in the face of tough markets and increased government regulation.
