Word: diminisher
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...further visits for the rest of the week. The next day Sakharov sat for interviews with two U.S. television networks, again with no signs of censorship or restraint. While the years in exile have clearly taken their toll on Sakharov's health, they have just as clearly failed to diminish his spirit...
...most important things are hard to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what...
...stunningly successful U.S. visit will not diminish the problems Aquino must face when she returns this week to Manila. But it certainly added a luster of political sophistication to her image as an honest, principled leader. And that should buy her much needed time -- and the increased loyalty of the Phil- ippine people -- in the difficult months ahead...
...trade deficit does not soon diminish, some economists fear, its effects could help push the U.S. into a recession. In testimony before the House Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said that the trade deficit had placed the economy in "difficult and dangerous" circumstances. It has undoubtedly caused much of the recent slowdown in growth: the economy expanded at a 1.1% annual rate between April and June, down from a 3.8% rate the previous quarter. The Commerce Department reported last week that the index of leading economic indicators, a barometer of future growth, increased by a modest...
...last-minute response to Solidarity provocation. But by admitting that plans for a crackdown were formulated as early as November, Walesa charged last week, Urban lent credence to the "Solidarity conviction that (martial law) was premeditated." Declared Janusz Onyszkiewicz, another former Solidarity leader: "This is simply a campaign to diminish the sympathy that the U.S. Administration enjoys in Poland...