Word: diminished
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...don’t know what it means for society that the “elite” of our generation is as I say it is. That we can break the Organization Kid mold on occasion doesn’t diminish the concerns outlined in the New York Times article and doesn’t begin to address Brooks’ criticism about character building and moral discourse. But I do think this flexibility to be something other than purely goal-driven success machines is one that will serve us well in the future...
...don’t know what it means for society that the “elite” of our generation is as I say it is. That we can break the Organization Kid mold on occasion doesn’t diminish the concerns outlined in the New York Times article and doesn’t begin to address Brooks’ criticism about character building and moral discourse. But I do think this flexibility to be something other than purely goal-driven success machines is one that will serve us well in the future...
...start of its new campaign, the BGLTSA has highlighted the severity of the problems potentially faced by avoiding bathroom breaks—with afflictions ranging from emotional distress, due to fear of harassment, to dehydration and kidney failure. Opening all 24 single-occupancy bathrooms to both sexes will greatly diminish the threat of these problems. Following the example of Currier House—which promptly relabeled its four single-stall bathrooms following the report’s release—we urge the immediate implementation of the BGLTSA’s recommendations...
...them to the general public, nor to make the average homosexual feel more at home on the campus or in their company. Indeed, many may be only too quick to jump back into the closet rather than be associated with their extreme rhetoric. More than that, it threatens to diminish BGLTSA’s credibility when it does discuss the prevailing gay rights issues of the day like gay marriage...
Claims that expansion of the undergraduate body might diminish the school’s reputation by raising the acceptance level and increasing the number of students who could tout the Harvard name is both elitist and absurd. There are plenty of similarly respectable universities with much larger undergraduate populations than the 7,400 that would be created by adding 1,000 undergraduates—Harvard turns down thousands of well-qualified students a year—and acceptance rates would likely maintain their present level as increased visibility of international students on campus would encourage greater numbers to apply. Summers...