Word: diminisher
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...conflict between there fears of impending disaster and the need to live from day to day by desensitizing themselves to the threat. He compares this to the way Americans learned to eat their dinners calmly while watching the bloodshed of the Vietnam War on TV--familiarity and repetition diminish the meaning of violent horrors...
...fact, the dispatch said, a negative vote would "substantially diminish U.S. ability to play a critical role" in Arab-Israeli peace talks it would also "permit the [Soviet] Union to increase its influence in the Arab World." Hours later, a sharply divided Senate approved the sale by a 52-48 margin, making official President Reagan's pledge several months earlier to sell the aircraft. Later, sensors confirmed that last-minute lobbying efforts--like that of the Time group--had tipped the scales in favor of the Saudis...
...negative vote on the sale would also "substantially diminish U.S. ability to play a critical role" in Arab-Israeli peace talks and "permit the Soviet [Union] to increase its influence in the Arab Gulf," the dispatch--a copy of which The Crimson received this week--contends...
Three days of Congressional hearings ended yesterday on a research and development bill opposed by Harvard and other universities on the grounds it would diminish federal funds for university research...
...produce the predicted flood of new job-creating capital spending is thus doubtful at best. For all its self-styled radicalism, then, Reaganomics is just old-time Republican fiscal conservatism brushed up with a fresh coat of supply-side paint; in effect, the administration is running a recession to diminish inflation...