Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trauma experts anticipate relatively few cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that afflicted many Vietnam veterans. "This war was quick, efficient, brilliant, and every soldier can take credit for that," says Fink. "I believe that will diminish the number of psychiatric casualties." Still, families should be on the lookout for such symptoms as depression, difficulty in concentrating and distressing dreams...
...industry received a boost last week when First Lady Barbara Bush took a commercial flight to Indianapolis to show terror-stricken Americans that air travel was safe. Said she: "I'm not afraid to fly." Her gesture may diminish fears, but it will take a stronger economy and probably an end to the gulf war to get the industry -- big eagles and sitting ducks alike -- airborne again...
...understood that, barring some miraculous collapse or an Iraqi withdrawal, such an option would necessarily involve ground assaults. When the ground war is joined, Bush's generals have told him, it must be with full power and fury to assure victory. That will mean mounting casualties, which might diminish his political base. The military men insist that at such a point casualties must be ignored. Bush is fundamentally a political animal, and he knows that in the long run he must have the nation behind him. Timing has become almost everything. Swift, decisive action is imperative. Not since World...
...factories, construction sites and shipyards across the U.S., girly pinups -- often so anatomically explicit they would make Betty Grable blush -- are the workingman's constant companion. Although women hold 8.6% of skilled blue- collar jobs, their presence has done little to diminish the existence of these graphic images. For their part, courts have been reluctant to rule that pornographic pictures constitute a form of sexual harassment in the workplace, mainly because such photos are ubiquitous...
Despite this willingness to continue with the search, Corporation members and Harvard officials are not attempting to diminish the role Mockler played in the group...