Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of how disagreeable Fidel's apparatchiks may find these measures, they have produced real change. The trading ignited by newly legalized dollars has been fueling the economy for the past 18 months. Despite Clinton's move last August to diminish the remittances sent by Cuban Americans to their families back on the island, millions manage to get through. Last year Cubans spent nearly a billion dollars buying imported consumer goods in 600 state-run stores across the island...
Whichever sex is at the helm, the margin of victory may depend more on technology than seamanship. If the Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made...
...there is nothing wrong with working in banking and finance. Simply because the social utility of these fields is more difficult to explain or comprehend does in no way diminish their contribution to the public good...
However, Gray Sexton's story speaks for itself. On the whole, the uneven tone does little to diminish the book's message of forgiveness and survival. The memoirs competently address so many of the relevant issues of family relationships and the horrors of mental illness and abuse. What could have easily been dismissed as yet another tell-all expose by a spiteful relative is instead...
...silence: the orchestra simply played--preferably loudly at first--to quiet the crowd. It is partly for this reason that most symphonies from the classical begin with a forte. When Haitink took the stage, the noise from the crowd of the elderly and well-to-do did not diminish. Thus, he dove straight into the cataclysmic opening bars of Brahms to silence the audience...