Word: diminisher
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...veteran of many amateur plays, I cherish the excitement of performing. It's exhilarating. I can't imagine taking a pill to diminish its effect...
...Soviets, they will collapse. When will we get another opportunity like this in our lifetime?" Even observers who don't for a minute believe the Soviet Union would actually collapse think that its behavior could be influenced: that economic pressure can force a reduction in Soviet military spending, diminish aid to Cuba and Viet Nam and even, perhaps, bring about a measure of internal reform in the Communist system. Reagan's principal aim in attacking the pipeline agreement is to prevent Moscow from benefiting from a flow of hard currency (an estimated $8 billion annually by the late...
...forecasting firm: "This is a year of caution and retrenchment. Without a substantial decline in interest rates, it is very difficult to see how consumption can keep rising." Other economists point out that plunging home prices are likely to depress spending. Moreover, rising state and local levies will probably diminish the stimulative effects of next month's federal...
...other students noted that they think the changes will hurt the MBA curriculum. "Some people think it will diminish the value of the program by making it easier," Roberta Sidney, a first year student says...
...competing with companies rather than with other universities for personnel. Robert M. Glaeser, divisional dean of the biological sciences notes that the companies have a financial advantage which is corrupting the "value of science knowledge and process in biology" He feels the value of science at the universities "will diminish accordingly" Although his university has not drawn up guidelines for the biotechnological area professors are not supposed to become directors of companies and at the same time maintain full professorships with the university...