Word: diminisher
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Your pleasure would diminish...
...moment when a satisfactory balance existed between the presidency and the forces outside that seek to diminish it has rarely if ever occurred. Thomas Jefferson was worried about the "tyranny of the legislature." By 1861, Executive Branch power was at a peak in the hands of Abraham Lincoln, only to slip from the grasp of indifferent and incompetent Presidents until Scholar Woodrow Wilson could suggest in 1885 that Congress had become the dominant part of Government. By the time Wilson won the White House, though, the U.S. was assuming international responsibilities that gave new importance to the presidency. That power...
...Vienna, Va., cheer him off from the sweet sweep of the South Lawn. The creaky jet still has some spirit as it thunders up through the gray clouds and is away. The Iran-contra mess seems to fade to a whisper, the deficits and the trade struggle to diminish magically. At 37,000 ft., the world looks green and serene, even manageable...
...West's dependence on the region for vital energy is unlikely to diminish since the gulf contains more than half the world's proven oil reserves. The Paris-based International Energy Agency warns that by the year 2000, the major industrialized countries of the West could be importing 60% of their oil, with gulf producers supplying a growing percentage of that...
...unfortunate that the real Harvard hockey team didn't show up this weekend," Cleary said of his squard's pair of tourney losses. "It's too bad, but it's still not going to diminish the great season...