In our lifetimes, it is likely to shrink to the size it was in the Roman era.
As semiconductors shrink to ever-smaller process geometries, the challenges of manufacturing them become increasingly thorny.
Now, adding in a one-game playoff, their chances shrink to about 4.6% for a world title.
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Conclusion: Real corporate earnings will probably shrink to a fraction closer to 2% to 3% of GDP.
Some power plants have seen their coal piles shrink to just 15 days of burn, one-third normal levels.
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Deep staff cuts and wage reductions are unavoidable if the airline is to shrink to a profitable core.
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His political base will shrink to those who depend on him for patronage.
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Research by TABB Group, a consultancy, suggests they will ultimately shrink to just three or four per asset class.
There is always the risk that after a spell of poor portfolio performance--almost an inevitability--the stocks will shrink to a discount.
Emmerdale's current Tuesday evening double episode will shrink to one half-hour instalment, with the other half of the Yorkshire series moving to Thursday evenings.
If you expand or shrink any of these three imbalances, it puts pressure on the others to expand or shrink to maintain the net zero balance.
The Navy, which had spent the previous decade building up to nearly 600 ships, including 15 aircraft carriers, would shrink to 450 ships, including 12 carriers.
The FDA blessed ExAblate after one trial in which 42 of 82 women with fibroids had their tumors disappear, or shrink to less bothersome levels within one year.
Alternatively, if we were to triple the corporate tax rate, our paltry 5 percent domestic investment rate (It was 15 percent in 1950.) would surely shrink to zero.
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Intel is introducing a new series of solid-state hard drives that offer up to 600 GB in capacity, CNet reports, as its chip geometrics shrink to just 25 nanometers.
It is a unique fond of information for the study of the Sea of Aral and of how it came to shrink to 10 per cent of its size in the 1960s.
And as you cannot get more than about 15% of GDP out of this tax then that would just mean that government (of all levels, added together) would need to shrink to 15% of GDP.
As the wireless network market continues to shrink, the number of major players in this space may shrink to four from six by the end of 2003, according to analyst Bill Lesieur of Technology Business Research .
While this sort of short-term protectionism is always politically popular, the reality is that domestic fisheries continue to shrink due to catch limitations.
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One is to claw back the subsidy such firms enjoy in their borrowing, both to encourage them to shrink and to pay for the clean-up when they fail.
Republicans led by Boehner seek to shrink government to reduce overall spending, especially on costly entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid that are main drivers of the deficits.
The new demographics that are causing populations to age and to shrink are something to celebrate.
Lopez said many companies are still trying to shrink the desktop to fit on a phone.
He is also working to shrink the device to roughly the size of a cochlear implant and make it less power-hungry.
The company said the percentage of sales that were clearance-priced had increased in the quarter causing margins to shrink and earnings to fall.
There is no need to shrink the government to make room.
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Sanyo and IBM face strong competition on fuel cells because many firms are working on ways to shrink the systems to fit laptops and even handheld computers.
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