Word: diminisher
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Although the leaders were short on specifics, one goal clearly was to diminish the influence of a key OAS member that was not invited to the parley: the U.S. Among other things, the so-called Group of Eight appeared to challenge Washington directly by suggesting that Cuba, which has been excluded for the past 25 years, should now be permitted to participate...
...appointed by the head of the college; and if, in case of neglect, inability, or bad usage, the student should not be allowed to change him for another...[it] would not only tend very much to extinguish all emulation among the different tutors of the same college, but to diminish very much in all of them the necessity of diligence and of attention to their respective pupils...
Alas, another irony: while gentrifiers as they first venture into an old neighborhood may be democratically inspired -- The diversity! The grit! -- they attract mobs of merely stylish followers who diminish the diversity and sweep away every last speck of grit. The old-line residents and the anchors of their communities -- the hardware stores, the cobblers, the taverns -- are driven out by suddenly high rents. Gentrification is not fun for everyone. Walter Reinhaus, a white graduate student, is renovating a Charles Addamsesque mansion in the middle of an all-black Chicago neighborhood. "With gentrification," he says, "it's easy...
...students at the Dartmouth Review, a conservative, independent weekly, think that the proposal will diminish the quality of those admitted to Dartmouth. College officials have not, however, announced any quotas or timetables...
...immediate entourage before the party and the people for the wholesale repressive measures and acts of lawlessness is enormous and unforgivable. This is a lesson for all generations." Yet Gorbachev tempered his criticism by noting "Stalin's incontestable contribution to the struggle for socialism," and seemed to diminish the extent of Stalin's crimes by numbering his victims in the thousands, rather than millions. Nonetheless, Gorbachev took an unprecedented step. Although Khrushchev had attacked Stalin's legacy with far more passion and detail 31 years earlier, his speech was never published in the Soviet Union; Gorbachev's was carried live...