Word: diminish
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While the Report does not address the problem. Dean Spence has shown interest in reconsidering the present policy of taking up to 90 percent of outside scholarship away from graduate students prior aid package. The present system seems designed to diminish the incentive to seek outside funds that would represent a net income to the student and to Harvard. We have suggested that a ceiling of 50 percent for reductions would be a fair figure. A related issue is the policy of docking House tutors for the estimated worth of their dormitory rooms and meals. Should tutors, who provide...
...unaccustomed role: the overanxious suitor. At nearly every opportunity, he betrayed his eagerness to meet with his Soviet counterpart. Two days after Mikhail Gorbachev was named Soviet Communist Party leader, Reagan invited him to a tete-a-tete in the U.S. The President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure nothing of this kind happens again...
...mischief making in Latin America and Africa. They insist on cosponsoring with the U.S. any negotiated settlement in the Middle East, while they continue to back the most radical Arab enemies of Israel. In Western Europe, they are trying, by a combination of political blandishment and military blackmail, to diminish and, if possible, supplant American influence. Is that particular aspiration consistent with the principle of superpower equality? Absolutely, say the Soviets. The U.S.S.R. is a European nation; the U.S. is not. Therefore Soviet power "belongs" on the Continent; American power and missiles...
...local bank's earnings should sufficiently offset the loss and diminish its overall significance, according to Cambridge Trust President Lewis H. Clark...
Moreover, according to the official American view, the President's dream of March 1983 can come true in a way that will increase the safety of both sides and diminish, if not eliminate, the threat of nuclear war altogether. The Administration hopes to convince the Soviets not only to blunt their offensive threat but to join the U.S. in the repudiation of MAD and in the embrace of strategic defenses. The superpowers, Kampelman will tell Karpov, have a mutual interest in gradually moving away from their current reliance on offensive nuclear weapons and letting their arsenals shrink under the benevolent...