Word: diminish
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...pregnancy may be the time of greatest vulnerability for the fetal brain. Therefore, even if a woman has been drinking heavily early in pregnancy, she has a better chance of having a healthier baby if she stops. This is not a recommendation to drink early in pregnancy. Women who diminish their drinking by midway improve their health and that of their unborn child...
...curtail flights of their less efficient planes, including DC-9s and Boeing 727s, and ultimately to accelerate the selling off of the aging planes, which has actually already been under way for months. With fewer planes in the air, more seats would be filled, and discount fares would diminish. Overall industry profits would wind up climbing rather than falling...
These flaws diminish but do not destroy the significance of American Patriots and the Rituals of Revolution. Writing with confidence, though without much flair. Shaw wades into a murky swamp of history, psychology and anthropology and emerges with a readable and important book. Perhaps no decision in American history has ever come with more difficulty and anxiety than the choice of whether or not to become a nation: the wars within the minds of the patriots may have been as flerce as the later battles with the British. Shaw traces the sources of that choice and recognizes...
...succeed the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski as Primate (see RELIGION), promised to continue the Cardinal's policies. But, though the church has won some important concessions, such as the right to broadcast Sunday Mass, some clerics fear that its influence as a unique voice of Polish nationalism may diminish with the rise of political pluralism...
Today, the Left's--and the nation's--euphoria is beginning to wear off. Slowly, the enormity of France's "new revolution" is being digested. Mitterand's decision to include four Communists in his new government, subtle gambit to diminish still further the power of the latter group, may backfire. And everyone realizes that the Socialists have been given a true mandate, with only themselves to blame in case of failure...