There is also quite a bit of discretion in stating that the economy may shrink by anywhere from 5 to 20 percent.

The average percentage, or payout rate, shrank to 4.8 percent last year from 5 percent.

The city's share of local Medicaid expenses would shrink from 25 percent to 20 percent.

The gap itself shrank to $14.1 billion from $15.7 billion, or 10.3 percent.

Indeed, the industry's profit margins have shrunk to 1.3 percent, from 2 percent a decade ago.

The amount deductible had shrunk from 100 percent to 65 percent.

In six the tumors shrank from 5 to 10 percent.

In the last decade, the state's share of financing for the Perry schools has shrunk from 55 percent to 37 percent.

Even in the suburbs, their share shrank to 44 percent from 64 percent.

That shrank the group's profit margins to 1.2 percent, from 9.6 percent a year earlier.