And in Taylor Hackford's "Proof of Life," which opens today (review, Page 8), David Morse plays an American engineer who is kidnapped by South American rebels and goes through the same sort of beard-sprouting, belly-shrinking experience.
Cities that are shrinking, or experiencing relative decline in comparison to other cities, face a different set of issues.
Birdlife's paper, The Messengers, predicts that most bird species will experience shrinking ranges, disrupted breeding seasons, and many are likely to shift their population distributions too slowly to cope with the onset of climate change.
The destruction of some of the last populations of the animals that shaped us, as well as the natural world, inflicts, I feel, a great wound in our lives, diminishing the wonderful planet on which we evolved, shrinking imagination, crushing experience.
It is well acknowledged that water injection may induce formation fracturing in tight reservoir, and the injection well may experience shrinking fracture length (SFL) and variable fracture conductivity (VFC) during fracture-falloff period, which shows the bi-storage behavior.
The economy isn't shrinking; it's experiencing "negative growth".
Dee was born and spent her early childhood in Vienna, making her one of that shrinking cohort who experienced and survived the monstrous storm of Nazi violence.
BLOOMBERG NEWS Shrinking Numbersrs Prompted a Radio Merger | The combination of WRKS and WBLS, two longtime New York radio stations, underscores a shift in the industry, as broadcasters have experienced shrinking audiences when measured by a new technology, The New York Times reports.
