Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transformation. In the two years since the death of able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos...
...Three billion dollars," predicts Professor Seymour Harris, "will have to come from increased tuition rates in the next decade, if universities are to survive." How Harvard and the rest can meet this demand, with inflation shrinking endowment assets at the same time that alumni contributions diminish, is a problem Harris has attempted to solve in his plan for a long term student loan program...
...life-time to pay it back. The loan, ever present, being reduced by a piddling sum each year, could turn into a hateful obligation fairly soon. Knowledge that the repayment is less than one per cent of total income will only prolong the indebtedness, not diminish...
Adlai Stevenson. He did not noticeably alter the campaign's outcome in the four states where he campaigned, did not increase or diminish his own chances for a third nomination. Stevenson denies all presidential ambition, gives the impression he will take the nomination only if the convention offers...
Varsity coach Bill McCurdy's squad has also had its share of injuries, which only served to diminish further the number of top-flight runners. Jim Schlaeppi and Ed Martin have just recovered from leg injuries and their performance this afternoon will have a large bearing on the outcome of the meet. Mac Brown and Will Julian are also expected to place well for the Crimson. McCurdy's most promising sophomore is Jed Fitzgerald who, as a freshman, broke the Yardling record for the mile and two-mile...