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

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They swiped this figure from the San Francisco Fed to show that this shrinkage is a new trend.

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Does anyone really believe that the retail sector can flourish with this shrinkage?

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This shrinkage, though universal, affects people's mental performance in very different ways.

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This second tumor shrinkage finding could be important for the minority of patients whose metastases are only slightly too big to attempt a curative surgery.

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This would be shrinkage indeed.

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The combination means an overall market shrinkage which could reach 20% this year.

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Despite a small shrinkage in the number of free checking accounts in the sample, this kind of deal is far from gone.

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But this approach also forces the consortium to tackle the second problem raised by the continual shrinkage of transistors: too many or too few atoms in the wrong places.

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