Word: diminisher
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...recall dozens of small shop owners and other individuals telling me in early 1948, when queried about the possibility of a Communist victory, "ho paura nel mio cuore " (I have fear in my heart). What has changed to diminish that? I doubt that anything has among all those bright Italians...
...chief speech writer. Recently Ford promoted Cheney Aide David Gergen, 34, to White House special counsel and assigned Stefan Halper, 31, to help Cheney and Gergen assess the political implications of Administration initiatives. However, both Gergen and Halper are former speechwriters, a fact that will do little to diminish the tension between the Cheney and Hartmann operations...
...numbers of Third World citizens and a proportionately decreasing number of Westerners. There will be smaller concentrations of young Americans, and larger colonies of old ones. Working hours will drop; the political power of women and ethnic minorities will rise. Leisure will expand; traditional food and fuel supplies will diminish. Longevity will increase-and so will the dangers of ecological mismanagement and military conflict...
...local television land, the past two years have seen a proliferation of "happy talk news" shows that are a demeaning parody of news coverage. In studios that look like mod courtrooms, people of aggressive charm bounce one-liners off each other in ways that trivialize the news and diminish the raw impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow...
Such shortcuts do not seem to diminish the satisfactions. "There is tremendous excitement in putting seeds in the ground-little pieces of nothing in the earth-and seeing them grow," declares Harold Field, a retired editor and enthusiastic gardener in New York's Westchester County. "It defies description. It's almost magical." The rising interest in pots, plots and window boxes is, indeed, a healthy trend in a mechanized society. Millions of Americans work at jobs that rarely encompass more than a step in a production sequence or a repetition of services. And they work indoors, besides...