Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...losses mount, one of Lloyd's biggest problems -- the desertion of its names -- will undoubtedly grow. Lloyd's could then face a capital crunch that would diminish its capacity to take on new business. The number of names providing capital to the syndicates jumped from 7,000 in 1973 to 32,500 in 1988, but has fallen to 26,500 since then, largely because Lloyd's suddenly looks like a risky proposition...
Although an American general will continue to be NATO's supreme commander, the overall effect of the redesign will be to diminish U.S. domination of the alliance. While American forces assigned to NATO will be reduced 50% or more, according to British estimates the overall cut in NATO's total force of 2.8 million would be only about 22%. Thus a larger percentage of the remaining forces would be European. That should please congressional critics who have long complained that the allies ought to shoulder more of the burden of defending themselves...
France, which is a NATO member but pulled out of the alliance's military structure in 1966, made moves to fill this gap in such a manner as to revive old suspicions that it was out to diminish the U.S. role in Europe. Paris would have preferred a strictly European rapid-reaction force that would not be part of NATO and could be sent anywhere in the world. Washington opposed the idea as a potential first stage in the creation of a European force in which it would have no role. French officials immediately began soft-pedaling their idea...
Utter dominion over an industry, which IBM enjoyed from the 1960s to the 1980s, rarely lasts so long. Now that it is waning, perhaps the company should be congratulated for maintaining its role as long as it did rather than criticized for letting it finally diminish. And before anyone organizes a benefit dinner, remember that IBM was America's most profitable industrial company last year, earning more than $6 billion. Its profit will likely decline this year, but the company remains huge, powerful and full of talent. In the realm of computers, it is not what it was. But underestimating...
...Estragon, Ardell enjoys an easy rapport with Jones on stage. Sporting a dirty leather jacket, a filthy sweatband and a five o'clock shadow, Ardell looks like Indiana Jones after a forage through the mud. He delivers a strong and energetic performance, though his dramatic range tends to diminish as the play progresses...