Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students at Littleton High want to be remembered for their achievements and their sense of community, not for this tragic event. Yet it will be forever marked on the American psyche. There is no option to ignore or diminish its significance...
...Republicans want to portray the President as a bungler who?s allowed defense capabilities to diminish for six years," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Party leaders stand ready to argue that America was not adequately prepared for the current war, and that the country is not ready to fight in a second theater should another crisis suddenly arise. The strategy of attacking the President?s military policy in the midst of a war has its risks. "Democrats can certainly be counted on to argue that the GOP is merely playing politics," says Dickerson. "And Republicans are also mindful...
...baroque architecture, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Louis XIV after the Sun King lured him to Paris. Foster is too much of a democrat to echo that sentiment, but it's a fact that his imagination runs naturally on the epic scale and that, more surprisingly, large size doesn't diminish the humanistic and spiritual qualities of his buildings...
...honor our more famous political alumni with plaques, with speeches and with honorary degrees. But even if yet another Harvard alum is elected to the White House seat next year, it will do nothing to diminish the stature of this local hero...
...million ever develop the disease. Circumcised men are one-third to one-half as likely to become infected after exposure to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. But they are not by any means immune, and the difference in infection rates would probably diminish among men who use condoms and practice safer...