Word: diminish
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Sessions, Rep. Pete •accusation by that Obama plans to "diminish employment and diminish stock prices" for no other reason than to "inflict damage and hardship on the free enterprise system, if not to kill...
...which the "stress tests" indicated is possible, will dwindle. Investors may begin to think that the test criteria were too liberal. If that happens, the public's faith in the capacity of the federal government's ability to find systemic problems in the financial sector and solve them will diminish quickly. Nothing could be worse than the perception that both the regulated and the regulators have lost their ways. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...these are distant concerns given the more immediate problems associated with the purchase. The UC’s misguided attempt to buy 45 Mt. Auburn is likely to fail, and such a failure would diminish the UC’s already scant credibility and distract it from important items on its agenda, such as responding to the massive budget cuts sweeping the university...
...depend on the participation rate that the school sees in an early retirement incentive program for staff that will conclude next week, according to Marie H. Bowen, an assistant dean and chief human resources officer at the Law School. To supplement the results of the early retirement program and diminish the need for layoffs, the Law School will try to keep currently unfilled staff positions empty in order to trim operating expenses, Jackson said. But how effective this hiring “chill” will be at closing the gap in the school’s budget remains...
...stunning grasp of policy detail and extraordinary powers of concentration. But she evaluated policy options against a very short set of criteria. Did a proposal reduce taxation or increase it? Did it expand economic freedom or restrict it? Did it strengthen Britain's role in the world or diminish it? Did it reward initiative or encourage dependency? Keeping things simple enabled her to maintain focus on what she really wanted to achieve...