Word: damper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warmer and damper it gets the faster the books deteriorate. When it's hot and humid the stuff is decaying very rapidly," says James M. Reilly, director of the Image Permanence Institute...
...ardent Kerry supporter and lifelong Democrat, Coleman says this policy does not damper the political activity of administrators...
Although the park has since been reopened, the extra precautions that must now be taken because of the bombing do put a damper on the enjoyment, and serve as a reminder of a senseless act of violence...
...damper that the loss put on the season was pretty small...
Some laypeople (like me, for example) have trouble seeing the difference between these two views--between saying consciousness doesn't exist and saying it is nothing more than the brain. In any event, both versions of strict materialism put a damper on cosmic speculation. As strict materialism became more mainstream, many philosophers talked as if the mind-body problem was no great problem. Consciousness became almost passe...