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The American S&E labor pool is shrinking, and industry has already responded by transferring much of its research and development overseas; however, companies are mostly moving lab scientists, not strategic analysts.
And it cites the shrinking pool of 18-to-22-year-olds and the booming economy as two causes of the problem.
--Some say the president's wire-tapping measures are grotesquely intrusive, but apparently the Republicans want to deploy some sort of shrinking machine that can inject a tiny congresswoman right into your digestive system.
(And the difference, as Jodie Allen pointed out in Slate a while back can be fully accounted for by the ironic fact that government spending--which is part of GDP--grew in the Reaganite '80s and is shrinking in the Clintonite '90s.)
Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.