Russia's book-reading, scientific middle class has also shrunk compared to communist times.
Moreover, as further evidence of partisan hardening, pundits note that the number of undecided voters has shrunk compared to previous presidential elections.
We've seen this trend consistently in the earnings reports of gaming companies like EA, where revenues from handheld devices are shrinking compared to smartphones and tablets.
By either metric, Microsoft shrunk compared to its year-ago first fiscal quarter in which it brought in $23.2 billion in total top line.
Furthermore, we found that the removed mesh plug and the onlay mesh slightly shrunk compared to their original size but not stiffened as reported [2] and with no granulation attracted (Figure 3c).
While the difference between labor pricing in places like India and China is shrinking compared to more established economies in Europe and the U.S., labor costs in Eastern European and Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, are still relatively low.
Seemed like a good idea at the time, but it shrinks incredibly compared to Baghdad and Beirut and New York".
The number of academic jobs has shrunk dramatically compared to the number of new graduates.
In 2012, according to her latest findings, it was still worth a stunning $56bn, despite shrinking slightly compared to the previous year.
It closed at a 28-month low on the back of slumping high-tech stocks, fears of cooling global demand and, most importantly, the government's revised gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the third quarter of 2000 that show output actually shrank 0.6% compared to the previously released growth number of 0.2%.
