Word: diminisher
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Although having separate calendars is better than none at all, Moses' distinctions diminish participation in minority groups to the status of any other extracurricular activity. Placing speeches by well-known minorities who do not often come to Harvard, academic advising by upperclassmen, cultural presentations, and panel discussions on race and ethnicity in American society--all part of last year's student-organized Freshman Week events--alongside swim team tryouts and the showing of Love Story, the FDO implies they are equally valuable. He has denied all freshmen the chance to learn of the broad-ranging role played by such minority...
OSTENSIBLY, the U.S. Marines were sent to Lebanon to stabilize internal conflict there sparked by the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the tenuous installation of the Gemayel government. So the realization that, on balance, the Marines' presence seems to heighten rather than diminish conflict within that country leads to a simple conclusion: they should be recalled...
...Britain's dour Field Marshal Douglas Haig in World War I who confessed he never went to the front lest the squalid horror of trench warfare diminish his will to send armies to their death, an act he thought not only necessary but inviolable...
...push to get good names. In addition to these age-old concerns, Harvard, just as every other school in the country, is facing a technological revolution--which, if handled right, could harness these innovations to enhance an undergraduate education, and if handled poorly or ignored, could significantly diminish the worth of a Harvard diploma...
...ready to give up being a scientist yet." says Dowling. And it is sentiments such as this--combined with a sense as one official says, that the scholar may lack some of the "bite" needed for the job--that diminish for a number of observers the likelihood of Dowling becoming dean...