Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelations of Morton's book and the Dianagate tape have done nothing to diminish her enormous public appeal. Some recent polls rank her as the family's most popular member. No wonder then that she is not at all daunted by a solo life if that is to be her fate. "After all," says broadcaster and veteran royal biographer Penny Junor, "she's been orchestrating events." Her confidence is such that on her Paris trip, though she has only patchy, schoolgirl French, she did not hesitate to use it -- no mean attainment, since the French have a way of intimidating...
...more favorably than Blacks or Hispanics because they are the objects of white racist love, while Blacks and Hispanics are the objects of white racist hate. To serve as an object of white racist love is to act as a foil to troublesome minorities, particularly Blacks, in order to diminish the validity of calls for greater social equality. Choi's article furthers this cause by promoting a "favorable" image of Asians, based on misleading standards like SAT scores...
Clinton strategists profess to be sanguine. "The Perot candidacy is a missile in directed flight against Bush," says George Shipley, a Democratic consultant in Texas. "That's his whole game." Bush's advisers do worry about losing Texas. But they argue, perhaps wishfully, that Perot could diminish Clinton's overpowering lead in California to the point where Bush would be competitive there. If the numbers in the nation's largest state begin to change, Bush would divert money and time to the West Coast. That would force Clinton to do the same in the final weeks. Clinton's pollster, Stan...
...construction of the Commons will not diminish the importance of the existing house system, Parsons said...
...Being intoxicated does not diminish a student's responsibility to adhere to college policy nor permit a student to abdicate his/her responsibilities within that policy...