Word: diminishable
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...Senate, is still often known as Teddy, the diminutive attached to him as the youngest brother in his powerful family. The nickname persists because he was blessed and cursed by the gift of years that let him lead a full and well-publicized life that could only diminish him against the gargantuan mythology grown up around his murdered brothers John and Robert...
Additionally, the council would go a long way towards increasing its legitimacy if it decreased its size once and for all. Uncontested elections diminish the council members' need to be responsive to their constituents. Reducing the number of seats and making elections more competitive would force candidates to actively seek out and respond to the concerns of students...
...bludgeon the competition. If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skulduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM. And Compaq. And Apple...
...result," he wrote, "is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest." Even more devastating, Jackson found that in its rush to make life tough for its competitors, Microsoft was actually willing to diminish the quality of its own products. Bundling a Web browser into Windows 98 did not benefit consumers, as Microsoft claimed. Rather, Jackson found, it slowed down the operating system, increased the likelihood of a crash and made it easier for "malicious viruses" to find their way from the Internet onto...
...would be in 2025, far enough into the future to imagine its glorious potential but not so far as to look downright silly in our crystal-ball gazing. Most of us stand an excellent chance to see 2025, especially if we're right about the diseases we will diminish. So save this issue and see how right...