1.   Bond investors are putting up a lot of cash to help Lockheed Martin Corp. and other defense companies grab a bigger piece of a shrinking pie.

2.   Politicians, fighting over a shrinking pie, become even less cooperative.

3.   Power Computing and the other cloners were taking a growing share of a shrinking pie.

4.   Reallocating the slices will not expand a shrinking pie.

5.   Seattle City Councilwoman Cheryl Chow predicted economic pressures will lead to more tensions among minority groups vying for a shrinking pie.

6.   Sen. John F. Kerry says influence on congressional committees still matters when it comes to slicing a shrinking pie.

7.   The change, which endowment officials describe as a strictly budgetary response to a shrinking fiscal pie, has raised a furor among nonprofit arts agencies.

8.   Who deserves a slice of the shrinking pie?

9.   But some say the government has mismanaged the economy and has its priorities wrong as it tries to divvy up the shrinking national pie.

10.   Industry players say the strongest tremors will be felt in the Orchard Road shopping belt where retailers chase after a slice of the shrinking local pie.