Shrinking budgets focus minds: We do have to address the questions of decommissioning and spending money more effectively.
Shrinking the focus on claims to the metropolitan level, the New York area shows a claim rate just shy of 20 percent, considerably below the national average.
However, there is a risk that austerity and budget pressures will force that wider vision to shrink to focus purely on the park infrastructure.
Sanctions can also have a devastating impact on claimants' ability to look for work, as "the horizons of people who have received a sanction dramatically shrink to focus on the immediate problems of finding the next meal".
It is a show which deploys such tight scrutiny of such tiny, unimportant things that it shrinks your focus down to just the shape of a model's mouth or the gap between her lips when she smiles.
Instead, you shrink your focus and keep your goals clear-cut then recognize what the next level looks like and scramble like mad to get there.
That pool of money is shrinking as the focus shifts elsewhere.
But Western Europe's share in the German pie is shrinking as companies focus new investment on more vibrant markets.
It makes sense (to me, at least) that societies increasingly interested in sharing the fruits of a stagnant or shrinking pie will focus more on which groups "deserve" to share in that redistribution.
Japan issues only about 50,000 work visas a year, a fraction of the 700,000 immigrants needed annually to prevent its population from shrinking, hence the focus on labour-saving tech such as robots for homes.
These three aspects of the Republican strategy -- a federal budget battle to shrink government, focused on programs the vast middle class depends on; state efforts to undermine public employees, whom the middle class depends on; and a Supreme Court dedicated to bending the Constitution to enlarge and entrench the political power of the wealthy -- fit perfectly together.
