Over the years, however, the strike zone has shrunk, reaching the point where pitches at the waist are not called strikes.
He said: "It's too early to tell whether it's a game-changer, but it is addressing a fundamental problem of addressing shrinking reach in the core markets".
Television's shrinking reach simply cannot complete with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and their growing audiences.
The industry assumption is that, regardless of how much BBC output is already commissioned from independent production companies, any government intent to shrink the reach of the BBC will deliver a new competitive era in broadcasting.
Under the law, the federal government would pay the full cost of enrolling newly eligible people from 2014 to 2016, after which the share would gradually shrink until it reached 90percentt starting in 2022.
Looking at a site that uses responsive design, as you drag the corner of your browser window to resize it, you will see the site shrink until it reaches a breakpoint, and then the layout of the site will reload differently to better suit that smaller screen size and new browser dimensions.
In this study, we have also documented that fruit growth continues during the early stages of fruit ripening, and fruit appear to shrink once they reach eating ripeness and begin to senesce.
The budget deficits began to shrink in 1993 after reaching a peak of $340.5 billion in 1992, excluding Social Security.
After reaping high profits through most of the 1990's, peaking at 16percentt in 1997, the insurance industry in New York began to see its profit margins shrink in recent years, reaching 6.2percentt in 1999, according to figures from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
An initial hope of the Six Nations was that the BBC and Sky would share the rights, allowing the unions to increase their income without shrinking audience reach.
It's not hard to see whose financial interests are served by a consistent pressure to reduce the deficit and shrink government's reach: the wealthy, and especially Wall Street -- or, as Rob Johnson, a senior fellow at the liberal Roosevelt Institute put it, "people who don't want to pay taxes in the future".
