Word: diminisher
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...condoned babble of celebrities on television has done much to diminish the art of the interview. In contrast to such fluff, Lawrence Spivak in the early days of NBC's Meet the Press set a standard for Sunday talk shows with politicians. He refused to court either the guest or the audience. The aim of such shows, after all, is to inform more than to entertain. In fair, informed and gentlemanly questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb...
Congress has begun to act on those complaints. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Jake Garn of Utah wants to prevent money market funds from offering check-writing privileges; Congressman James Leach of Iowa has introduced a bill that would diminish the funds' appeal by setting reserve requirements on them. The money market funds are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but they, unlike banks, are not obliged to leave up to 12% of their deposits with the Federal Reserve. Such a requirement would increase costs for money market funds and reduce the interest they could...
...regional joyalty and wide-spread poverty diminish the possibility of realizing this dream in the minds of all save Common Market-conscious politicians, who forget that national pride cannot bring together Andalucian gazpacho and Cordoban shoes...
...comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near collision on their dual camel spins (twirling on one leg with the other leg stretched out, arm tight against it, so that the body forms a T) during the free skating could not diminish their domination. "I was satisfied with the results," Lisovski allowed later, "but not with my skating. We can skate better." That is hard to imagine...
...picked as targets, only a few would be axed completely; most of the others would not only continue but would grow, albeit more slowly. Indeed, total federal spending and tax collections would both rise, propelled by the inexorable forces of population and business growth, and an inflation that may diminish but will not go away. Total federal expenditures, by Reagan's own figure, would rise from $655 billion in fiscal 1981, which ends Sept. 30, to $912 billion five years hence. That would be a hefty $124 billion less than might be foreseen if spending kept ballooning...