Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, the newest superconductors may have trouble making it out of the lab into commercial products. Their biggest drawback: mercury is extremely toxic. But that doesn't diminish the importance of the discoveries. By * studying the mercury compounds, Chu and other scientists can learn more about what makes molecules become superconductors and how laboratory tricks can help the process along. The research has barely begun, and countless compounds remain to be tested. Chu intends to work his way through the periodic table, looking for promising elements to mix into his superconducting concoctions. What's a likely candidate? Well, says...
...members are not worried that the club's popularity among men will diminish. "The people we would want in the club would be of the same frame of mind and would support this," said James E. Bradner `94, who coordinated last year's "punch," the club's two-month membership selection process...
...enough left over to reduce the federal budget deficit. Ever since the campaign, when Clinton first floated this claim, budget experts have derided it as a "free lunch" approach. But now the President has backed it up with tough choices on spending -- choices that might prove politically impractical or diminish the quality of health care, but which at least demonstrate his seriousness...
Meanwhile, the political upheaval scares off foreign investors. The government's failure to return all the properties unjustly confiscated by the Sandinistas and to diminish Sandinista influence on policy has also put off some aid donors, most notably the U.S. During the first two years of Chamorro's term, Washington gave nearly $1 billion in grants, loans and forgiven debt. But in July the Senate voted to cut off $94 million in aid, pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation of Nicaraguan army and < intelligence ties to international terrorists. The House will soon decide whether to follow suit...
...department under fire for being deeply politicized and ethically challenged, drifting past successive scandals from B.C.C.I. to Iraqgate, employees consider her their best chance at redemption. Reno has, says an observer from Capitol Hill, "established a certain air of integrity that is emanating from that department. You cannot diminish the value of having the head of the Justice Department being recognized nationally for strength, integrity and honesty. That is certainly something that has not happened at Justice for the past 12 years. It's real corny, but it's real important...