Word: diminisher
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...divestiture issue exploded on campus four springs ago. University officials have firmly withstood public pressure to divest from businesses contributing to the economic welfare of South Africa's apartheid system. President Bok has upheld the importance of universities presenting their political neutrality, the Corporation has insisted that divestment would diminish any leverage Harvard might have over the behavior of these companies, along with hurting the University financially...
...occupied West Bank of the Jordan River. In the pursuit of that dream, Begin got Israel into the most controversial war in its history and raised tensions between the U.S. and Israeli governments to a level unprecedented in more than a quarter of a century. Yet that did not diminish the stubborn Prime Minister's resolve. "No one will set for us the borders of Eretz Yisrael," he shouted in the Knesset after President Reagan proposed in September that the West Bank should in the future be linked to Jordan. Using the biblical names for the occupied territory...
...green fur covers on the seats because someone says he might like green fur seats." If volume continues to increase, however, one option is to open the U.S. assembly plant that Volvo built in Chesapeake, Va., but decided in 1974 not to operate. Whether an American-made Volvo would diminish the Swedish mystique, only those loyal and affluent buyers know for sure...
Solidarity is a state of mind, and no one can crush that feeling. The Polish people may suffer repression, but no one can diminish their desire for freedom...
That is precisely General Wojciech Jaruzelski's dilemma. The new threats may do little more than further diminish morale and productivity, while failing to curb political dissent. But if Jaruzelski does not crack down, he may face difficult challenges from increasingly impatient hard-liners within his own regime. One such warning came last week at a Central Committee meeting when a letter from former Politburo Member Tadeusz Grabski was circulated accusing the government of allowing Poland to slide into anarchy. Any new power struggle among Poland's Communists would not only jeopardize Jaruzelski's hold on power...