Instead of shrinking from mainstream success, the band embraced it.
To fashion a BBC1 fit for the 21st century at a time of shrinking budgets, and his success – or otherwise – will determine his ranking in next year's MediaGuardian 100.
Although his novels headily explore ideas, and his gift for visual detail approaches that of John Updike (Briony's cousin, fondling a suitcase: "The polished metal was cool, and her touch left little patches of shrinking condensation"), his international success has a lot to do with an old-fashioned talent for creating suspense.
Based on Casio's success in shrinking cameras, music players and remote controls, here's looking forward to the wrist-size cell phones and TV sets that are rumored to be in the works already -- and to the watch-format CD players, microwave ovens and electric shavers that will surely follow.
When he accounted for the career level of the proposer, the gap in success rate shrank, but not completely: The success rate for men was 22.1%, comparable with the raw data, whereas women's success rate inched up to 19.3%.
Most acquisitions don't work out, and the chances of success shrink even more when you overpay.
Over time, our success shrinks to a minute sphere of what our personality types can "handle".
How can we tell young people that getting more education is the key to financial success amid rapidly shrinking chances of actually finding a middle-class job?
In 2000 they published a report in a medical journalthat showed, when compared with 3-D conformal radiation therapy, that dynamic IMRT increased the success rate in shrinking tumors from 43% to 96%, while decreasing complications from 10% to 2%.
Government officials acknowledged that efforts to mitigate the conflict at the interface between elephants and shrinking rangelands have met with limited success.
