At the same time, the cost of servicing a still-sprawling city has not shrunk in proportion.
Since 1970, the more higher education has expanded, the more the liberal-arts sector has shrunk in proportion to the whole.
Scargill's hold over the union shrank in proportion to its decline as an industrial force from the "vanguard of the UK trade unions" to membership just a few thousand strong.
If the economy grows faster than its current 2percentt annualized rate, the deficit shrinks in proportion.
First, from 1970 to 1997, the number of physician-scientists obtaining National Institutes of Health (NIH) support has been essentially flat and shrinking in proportion to doctoral recipients who seek and obtain funding (27).
Then, two years ago, just as the economy in Manhattan was about to implode, he moved to a spot down the block that was double the size and nearly triple the rent, and watched his business shrink in inverse proportion to his new investment.
All other demographic parameters of the original model are assumed to remain constant in time, and the relative sizes of the age classes grow and shrink in linear proportion to the total population size.
We had been living several blocks away in a one-bedroom apartment, whose 450 square feet seemed to be shrinking in indirect proportion to our daughter's age, and we were in desperate need of more space.
