With investing, maybe you win or, then again, maybe your 401(k) shrinks down to two weeks' paid vacation before your final trip to Mass.
They send those specimens to us on what we call a 'plate.' Imagine you've got four ice-cube trays, all taped together, shrunk down to three inches by four inches — that's what a plate looks like.
There's Star, the former Paulette Regina Starr, "her name and being shrunk down to four essential letters now," a pretty misfit whose naïveté and sentimentality are matched by a strong will; her former lover and road companion, Pan, a feckless pragmatist out for a good time; and her new boyfriend, Marco, a draft dodger who's learned a sort of Emersonian self-reliance from his years on the road.
The other three shrink down to little tabs.
And in a manner not calculated to appeal to serious collectors, with CD's already spilling off their shelves, it holds mostly air; repackaged sensibly in soft plastic sleeves, the CD's and booklets shrink down to fit into less than two shoe boxes.
The integrated cable management lets the three port hub shrink down to an easily stowable size and, at $12.95, it doesn't sting nearly as much as competing travel hubs — especially since it allows you to charge your phone at the same time (if you have a phone with a mini-USB connection, that is).
Hit a single key and all those windows instantly shrink down to a size where you can pick the one you want to bring to the front.
A Plan For US Airways 05.13.02 One option the carrier should present to shareholders: shrink down to regional airline size.
Take G.M. It is shrinking down to its four core brands.
The tool wear is characterized by the cutting edge rounding (CER) and the flank wear (VB), and the tool wear measurement interval is shrunk down to every two holes to obtain detailed wear mechanisms.
