Mr. Obama is under pressure to shrink programs not only to reduce the deficit but also to offset the still-unspecified increases in government spending that he has proposed as investments in innovation, education, infrastructure, technology and research, and which are intended to foster long-term economic growth.
'I started to think that going to the shrink was not only analysing me but analysing my movies,' he says when I meet him at his production office in London.
For many in the field this latest suggestion is emblematic of a broader problem: the shrinking importance not only of diplomatic history but also of traditional specialties like economic, military and constitutional history.
Given the administration's ties to real estate, oil and mining interests -- groups that have long resented the act's restrictions -- conservationists fear that this review process can have only one result, shrinking protections not only for prairie potholes but also small streams, wetlands adjacent but not visibly connected to navigable waters, even tributaries of bigger rivers.
Its headcount is shrinking, not expanding.
As happened in the Gulf war, many American tourists will worry about becoming targets while travelling abroad.All this will shrink the profits not only of airlines, but of a wide variety of other businesses in the travel industry, ranging from hotels to car-rental companies.
A 12th century chronicler neatly summed up the attitudes of the time when he wrote that "the Christians did not shrink from eating not only killed Turks or Saracens, but even dogs".
As the unemployment rolls swell and nest eggs shrink, Americans are not only cutting back, they are reevaluating their ways of life.
When I first witnessed the increasingly intense stag battle between spokesmen for (respectively) today's pragmatism and the liberationist psychology derived from the 1960's guru R. D. Laing, I wondered if the shrinks were not only madder than their patient but also too mad to be believed.
If managed well with vision, the fact that the number of children and adolescents in Thailand is shrinking will present not only challenges but also a golden opportunity.
Alternatively, if a sector had low inflow and low stickiness, we interpreted this as an unattractive and shrinking sector because not only were there few new providers entering the sector, the ones who were working in that sector did not remain over time.
