Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moawad is opposed by General Michel Aoun, commander of the fanatically loyal Christian army in East Beirut. Aoun is enraged that, as part of the peace plan, Moawad is willing to diminish Christian political power and let 40,000 Syrian troops continue to occupy large parts of Lebanon...
...Explains young Edwards: "It's peer pressure and wanting to be accepted by your friends and trying to prove yourself in the best way you know how, which is being violent." Gangs allow even the most cowardly and impotent to feel brave and powerful. And they override inhibitions and diminish any feelings of guilt. Violence becomes contagious. Some youngsters revel in the mayhem; others, too weak to break away, become trapped and are swept along...
...want to diminish the quality of the kind of things that we have been strong in in the past. The emphasis on quantitative, careful analysis is very important," Putnam says. "But is also important to be disciplined and careful and systematic in thinking about values, just as the school has long been careful and systematic in thinking about the quantifiable elements...
Deployment of North American military forces could succeed in ousting General Noriega. It would also diminish chances for an autonomous Panamanian democracy and inevitably reinforce Panamanian and all Latin American resentment and mistrust of the United States...
...University Hall takeover and the strike forced the administration's hand on the ROTC issue. Demonstrations and a letter campaign recently succeeded in twice delaying the implementation of recommendations in the Young Report, which would diminish the discretion of alumni over University policy...