Word: diminisher
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...nearly 11% in Mexico, around 5% in Canada and less than 4% in the U.S. (though duties on products like cocoa, for example, go as high as 20% in Mexico; in Canada tequila is slapped with a 183% duty). More important will be the steps that NAFTA takes to diminish nontariff barriers, such as dairy and cotton quotas in the U.S. and Canada, and various import licenses in Mexico. By rapidly widening the consumer market, the pact aims to spur capital investment across all three jurisdictions. This would be a striking change for Mexico, which has long banned outside ownership...
...article, entitled "Ity-ological Exclusion-ism--The Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations: To Diminish the Quality of Our Common Life?" is part of Peninsula's issue on race at Harvard which was distributed this week...
...Bush order does not carry much throw weight. While the White House declares it will affect as many as 3 million workers, the AFL-CIO claims it will involve fewer than 1 million. And though it will not greatly diminish the potency of union political activities, it does send a message. Asked if he was engaging in union busting, Bush responded with a straight face, "We enforce individual rights." Bush, countered AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, "has given hypocrisy a bad name...
Expressing culture is supposed to celebrate differences, not try to diminish them...
...added success for Le Pen's mean and narrow nationalism would be bound to diminish further France's influence as one of the five countries with veto power on the United Nations Security Council and as a leader in integration of the European Community. And whatever happens to Le Pen, that influence is already threatened by the prospect of a period during which the country is increasingly absorbed in internal wrangling...