Word: diminisher
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...letters Moses has received from freshmen applauding the housing policy, many other freshmen find the FDO inadequate in meeting their needs. "Nothing is sufficient, Moses sighs. "There will always be times a freshman needs to know something and we can't offer adequate advice. The point is to diminish the number of such situations." And Moses concedes the FDO gets mixed results for its efforts. "Some days I think there's no place else where such good stuff is happening. Other days, it feels like the back of my hand," he says...
...Santa Barbara is no ordinary oilfield. Like a growing number of production sites in California and Texas, Guadalupe is producing a gloppy goo that looks more like asphalt than normal petroleum. This is so-called heavy oil, a once rejected energy source that oilmen now believe may help diminish the nation's dependence on imported petroleum...
...goals are high-minded, the bottom line, in Bok's own words, is not. If the fund drive fails, he warns his audience, "it is likely that the quality of the institution will gradually diminish under the weight of economic pressures...
...average worker, facing a possible loss of income and the need to expend large amounts of time and effort gathering evidence, the benefits of exercising theoretically guaranteed rights are miniscule compared with the potential costs of potential dismissal. Such a system cannot help but diminish the number of persons seeking to engage in activities protected by the NLRA. It will also discourage workers fired for participating in these activities from filing charges with the NLRB and following them through...
...hike in the cost of crude oil, the OPEC cartel is now moving on a new tack in its offensive to win control over the world petroleum market. It is seeking to dominate global energy by reducing production in order to keep prices artificially propped up and to diminish the power of the so-called Seven Sisters, the major oil companies like Exxon and Shell that controlled world oil for half a century. These actions could result in a tense escalation of global petropolitics...