One unusual effect of the drug is that it appears to reduce the gradual brain shrinkage seen in MS patients over time, says Mundel.

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It is not just the 30% shrinkage in manufacturing's share of national output - to about 10% - during the last decade of the boom that has done damage.

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The incentive is to grow it, particularly for those in control, and with career civil servants ever fighting any form of downsizing, it seems the answer for true government shrinkage is not surgical strikes, but across the board cuts massive in nature.

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That is, when the vendor fails to meet certain goals or deadlines, it suffers the consequences, most prominently the shrinkage of its margins.

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No one knows exactly what the right balance of debt and equity is in an economy, but the shrinkage of securitisation in particular makes it more likely that the process of deleveraging will overshoot.

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It's what George Costanza might call significant shrinkage.

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The report said that towns and cities with less dynamic private sectors, such as Hull, Doncaster and Newport, would find it more challenging to offset the weak national economy and the ongoing shrinkage of the public sector.

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In the very short run it might even sell government securities, but open market sales and money shrinkage would be too harsh a medicine to go on for very long.

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Tumor shrinkage doesn't always mean better survival, but doctors are used to thinking of it as important.

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The study authors believe it was the B vitamins' effect on levels of homocysteine that helped slow the rate of brain shrinkage.

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This shrinkage coincides with a period of prolonged drought in eastern Africa, and was probably caused by it.

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Which is what supermarket group is interested in for it is the growth or shrinking of such incomes which will, to a large part, determine the growth or shrinkage of their own businesses.

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