21.   Since the U.S. defense budget has shrunk dramatically, many American military contractors have formed alliances with foreign firms to clinch overseas sales and combine marketing resources.

22.   Strategies will have to change if business slows down and district budgets shrink.

23.   That is particularly important today, she added, as corporate budgets shrink.

24.   The announcement of the donations was only the latest bit of good news for a school system whose music budget has steadily shrunk over the last two decades.

25.   The Boeing transaction reinforced the perception that becoming bigger is required to compete for defense projects nowadays as defense budgets shrink.

26.   While it was being developed, the threat it was designed to meet faded, and the military budget has been shrinking.

27.   With prison populations expanding and budgets shrinking, there are fewer resources available to do much beyond keeping Lorton and other prisons secure and calm.

28.   A prolonged economic crisis could mean reduced military spending, forcing the US to assume an increasing military burden at a time when the Pentagon budget has shrunk.

29.   Foreign aid budgets are shrinking, however, and available funds are more often given to eastern European neighbors than to poor countries in Africa and Asia.

30.   Johnson admitted it is hard to convince governments to increase spending on social services when their budgets are shrinking.