He writes that U.K. schools face "closure or shrinkage of departments, staff sackings, a smaller humanities provision".
Stores attribute a much greater proportion of shrinkage to shoplifting than to staff theft, management errors, and stocktaking incompetence.
Free meals become benefits in kind and the situation with tax is a headache, so ingredients for staff meals are "put down... to shrinkage": his chefs top up orders from their suppliers with cheaper ingredients like penne or chicken thighs and his staff knock back a pasta bake, a curry or a toasted sandwich at 5 o'clock.
With the demise of other entertainment print magazines like Premiere, the descent into paparazzi coverage of magazines like US Weekly, the vast cutbacks in film review staffs at newspapers like the LA Times, and the shrinkage of trade publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly holds a near-monopoly on national print film reviews (not to mention TV and book reviews).
As the study authors report, staff where the new tags were installed attributed the observed increase in shrinkage to "the lack of a visual deterrent to would-be thieves", and as alarm activations increased, "staff members [became] less likely to respond [to sounding alarms] and more likely to simply wave customers through" (Beck and Palmer 2010, p. 119).
One of the benefits of the continuing newsrooms shrinkage (no, we're not through, yet) will be news staffs making further gains in agility and polyvalence.
UCU regional official, Barry Jones, said: "This further devastating blow to the already ravaged London Met is based upon a strategic decision to focus on shrinkage and investment in campus facilities at the expense of teaching and support staff.
The shrinkage in white-collar employment will be 20% companywide but only 10% among the staff working to develop future cars and trucks.
"Mould damage, shrinkage," he says.
The result is testicular shrinkage.
