1.   If social services funding shrinks, that shrinking pool will include most of the community care money.

2.   And as expansions mature, productivity falls as employers are forced to hire less skilled workers from a shrinking pool of labor.

3.   As the river ebbed and flowed, shrinking pools trapped the fish and suffocated or overheated them as Eastern Washington temperatures soared.

4.   Bailey blames it largely on a shrinking national pool of candidates.

5.   Because more and more employers are signing on with HMOs to lower health insurance costs, there is a shrinking pool of fee-for-service patients.

6.   A shrinking pool of available workers may speed inflation in the coming months as employers compete for labor by boosting wages, which pushes up prices of their products.

7.   A shrinking pool of very cool air over the Northwest will still produce showers.

8.   Contractors are coping with a shrinking pool of public works projects.

9.   Construction and real estate companies are suffering from a slump in the housing market and a shrinking pool of public works funds.

10.   Equally, firms which continue to favor white men will find themselves fishing in a shrinking pool of potential employees.