Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scheduling the formal on Sunday, although it may diminish attendance, was a major cost-cutting measure, according to organizers, who added that rooms for Saturday nights must often be booked two years in advance...
Some may say that race does matter, although it shouldn't, and therefore we have to discuss it in order to diminish its impact. But this leads to a case of the chicken or the egg. Sure, we may need to study other ethnic groups to further assimilation, but in doing so we automatically stigmatize those groups we're studying. We study race because race matters, than we deny that race matters, then we study race more because we want to make sure ethnic groups aren't excluded by oversight. It becomes a never-ending cycle...
...increased residency requirements would not only diminish affirmative action measures, but would also increase the existence of patronage hiring in the city," she said...
...committed both to diversity and to racial integration," he said. "I think it would be a great shame if we started dividing [Harvard] up, saying, 'This race goes here.' It would diminish the University...
...point was comradeship, pride and rededication to a few core values. The march was also a partial antidote to what may be a creeping sense of despair among African Americans. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week, 56% of blacks questioned did not think discrimination against them would ever diminish. Only 27% of whites felt that way. While 65% of whites thought that race relations would eventually improve, only 44% of blacks agreed...