Word: diminisher
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...seeking vindication is that you will actually worsen your own reputation." But Editor Gene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer contended, "Westmoreland proved that you can cost a major TV network millions of dollars and tie up its management and journalists for months in litigation. The settlement won't diminish these cases, it will increase them...
...Listen, stop tanning yourself/ and talking about fishbelly white...Stop unfolding/ your eyes./ Your eyes are beautiful.../ Stop trimming your nose./ When you/ diminish/ your nose/ your songs/ become little/ tinny, muted/ and snub./ Stop bleaching/ your skin/ and talking/ about/ so much black/ is not beautiful...
...subsequent election gains by the political right would be a serious setback to the progress that Duarte has been making since his inauguration last June. Since then, the number of murders attributed to death squads has dramatically decreased, and extreme right-wing opposition to civilian rule has appeared to diminish. In addition, last October's meeting at La Palma between Duarte and Marxist guerrilla leaders, followed six weeks later by a second round of talks in Ayagualo, held out hope that the bloody Salvadoran civil war, which has claimed upwards of 50,000 lives over the past five years, might...
...that proposed by Treasury and Bradley Gephart, coupled with a realignment of roles of the public and private sectors in dealing with the working poor. Savings rates could be expected to rise sharply, interest rates to return to historic levels, manufacturing investment to rebound, and the trade deficit to diminish dramatically over the period and rising investment plus a declining dollar--reestablishing U.S. competitiveness once again...
...death diminishes me." It has always sounded excessive. John Donne expressed that thought more than 350 years ago in a world without mass communications, where a person's death was signaled by a church bell. "It tolls for thee," he said. Does it really? Logic would suggest that an individual's death would not diminish but rather enhance everybody's life, since the more who die off, the more space and materials there will be for those who remain. Before his conversion, Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge...