Word: cheapening
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...failures--our failures--cheapen all of our great moral stands and principles. A strong U.N.--one that has both the efficiency and the funds to operate properly--is one of the most crucial elements in preventing terrible suffering in the world...
...names of the new franchises themselves that really cheapen the national pastime. The Diamondbacks and Devil Rays just don't deserve to be in the same box scores as the Yankees or the Red Sox. True, the teams followed an animal-name tradition that has served the game well. After all, what would Detroit be without its Tigers or Chicago without its Cubs...
...Staff claims to criticize the media's involvement in this scandal yet relies on the as-yet-unconfirmed rumors about the workings of the investigation of the President. The American public and their soaring approval of the President cheapen the national character in the eyes of the world, and perhaps in the realm of American history in the decades to come. This scandal, complex and unsubstantiated, has woefully derailed vital American policy in Iraq, Bosnia and Israel...
...long before every petty dictator, multimillionaire industrialist, king, queen and drug lord has a clone or two made of himself or herself, then raised in confinement, so that when a heart, lung or kidney gives out, a spare is just a phone call away? How much further will this cheapen human life? STEVE GONTO Savannah, Georgia...
...absurd and offensive a memorial solely to Confederate soldiers would be, proponents of the idea have now tried to characterize the proposal as one for a memorial to alumni who died during the Civil War. But there is no clear precedent for such a memorial and it would cheapen the sacrifice made by Harvard's Union war dead to lump them together with those who lacked the courage to stand against the unjust and immoral regime in place in the Confederate South. There are probably a number of Harvard alumni who died doing the Devil's work, but there...