Word: diminish
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...pullout by Exxon from the Colony Shale Oil Project does not diminish the potential for synthetic fuels as an eventual solution to our energy problems. Government and private energy planners forecast rising world oil prices in the near future. All foresee the necessity for synfuels before the year 2000. The pullout by Exxon underscores the need for the Government to set a firm, long-term policy through the Synthetic Fuels Corporation for the development of a synfuels industry...
Here as elsewhere, Bok seeks to lay down an ethical line. The practice of hiring minority professors preferentially, he writes, "threatens to diminish the academic enterprise by lowering the quality of teaching and research." Rather than promoting justice, he says, preferential hiring practices "unfairly penalizes candidates of superior ability while holding little promise of achieving greater equality in the society as a whole...
...concentrate on more urgent economic problems. With the economy's downward spiral beginning to erode Reagan's political base, the President moved last week to regain some good will with a constituency that is vital for him. At the same time he moved to diminish the anger of another group, which has never trusted...
Bell said that while the federal government should gradually diminish its aid to the disadvantaged and enforce civil rights legislation only "as a last resort," it should continue to provide funds for research in universities...
Reinstituting the draft would do more to diminish the danger of nuclear war than the MX supermissile and B-1 bomber programs combined. No one else dares to say it. I understand, of course, that risking a nuclear doomsday is preferable to losing the votes of the 18-year-olds...