Runner-up: A terrifyingly huge Chinese vice-mayor minus legs looms over a tiny hospital patient, possibly shrunken due to some boiling-vat-and-cannibals-related accident.
In the midst of the financial crisis, he said he regretted his shrunken salary because it put a crimp on his charitable giving.
"The industry will shrink and stay shrunken," she reckons.
The city not only has a shrunken industrial sector and a struggling football team; it also contains houses so unreconstructed that they sometimes attract film crews in search of northern grit.
Unilever has enjoyed success selling consumer goods in small portions to Indians whose grocery budgets could not stretch to Western-sized packets; now it is offering shrunken packs of detergent to cash-strapped Spaniards and modest packages of mashed potatoes to impoverished Greeks.
DOES your shrunken pension account suggest we must radically reform retirement saving?
Oil taxes and royalties were expected to supply (an already shrunken) half of this year's revenue; today's estimate is 38%.
Thanks both to the near parity of the two parties in the polls, and to vigorous gerrymandering in favour of the status quo, the Republican majority seems certain to be returned, albeit in slightly shrunken form.All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs every two years.
As for Sajid Javid's confirmation on breakfast radio that, as the new Vince Cable, he has early plans to further curb already shrunken trade union rights to strike, that rash talk is not easy to square with the PM's one nation comments at the weekend ("Thatcherite Javid to spearhead business push," says the FT splash).
Higher bonuses had been paid last year to those Barclays wanted to keep, Jenkins said, referring to a "bench" of top staff to run the shrunken investment bank.
This weekend he will be back in parliament, seven years after he resigned as MP for Henley, taking the pulse of the (probably) somewhat shrunken parliamentary party.
