Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implications of Bush's proposals are far more onerous for the U.S.S.R. In his own polite and statesmanlike way, he was all but dictating to the Kremlin how it should restructure its nuclear forces so as to diminish even further the threat they pose to the rest of the world...
...position to benefit from preferential admission." In response, some scholars wonder whether socioeconomic class ought to augment race, or even replace it, as a criterion in affirmative action. Proponents say that would be fairer and, in a society of limited resources, more effective. They add that it might diminish backlash -- especially if preferences went to poor whites as well...
...release of the 10 Westerners still missing in Lebanon -- among them, five Americans. But if Israeli officials hoped this timely gesture might lower the heat emanating from the Oval Office, they were sorely disappointed. To remind Israel of its debt to the U.S., and maybe even to diminish the importance of the relative power Israel now wields over the fate of the five American hostages, Bush said, "Just months ago, American men and women in uniform risked their lives to defend Israelis in the face of Iraqi Scud missiles...
That is the final weapon of monsters: they beguile us with our own frailty. By way of science or theology, arguments Pavlovian or Paulinian, we diminish their horrors as we seek guarantees of forgiveness for our own capacity for error. We do this even though we know that humanity's "errors" -- our bigotry or anger or lust or selfishness or greed -- will go on churning out the accursed creatures. Like our forebears, we have got in the habit of monsters. If we are to escape their terror, we must not distort their significance. If they frighten us, we must remember...
...think Clarence Thomas stands for pretty much the same thing, is that by opposing racial preferences we stand for black strength rather than weakness. The thing that disturbs me about affirmative action, about preferences, is that they can and will be taken away. They will diminish over time. And in the interim they encourage us to believe that redress is our power. I don't take any simpleminded black-and-white view and say racial preferences have never done a bit of good for anybody. All I've tried to do is point out the down side and that...