Word: diminisher
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...second half produced a great deal of sluggishness on both sides, but the Tigers, after watching their lead diminish to five points at one stage, gradually pulled away from Harvard, and posted their seventh Ivy win of the year...
...rebate on 1974 taxes that would return a maximum of $300 to an individual. The money returned would start to diminish at a taxable income level of $20,000 a year and would be eliminated for anyone with taxable income above $30,000. The President had asked for a 12% rebate for all taxpayers, with a ceiling...
Toward the end of the week some of the urgency of the energy program seemed to diminish as Treasury Secretary William Simon testifying before a Senate subcommittee again emphasized his view that the buildup of petrodollars in the oil-producing nations was not going to be as massive as had been predict ed. Their foreign reserves, said Simon, might reach only $200 billion to $250 billion in 1980, rather than much higher figures that some had forecast. Reacting to higher prices, other countries were buying less oil from the oil states, which in turn were buying more goods and services...
...Soviets would give specific assurance that they would end harassment of emigres and substantially increase levels of emigration over the high mark set in 1973. Kissinger tells Jackson that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has privately assured him that the flow of Jewish emigres will increase and harassment will diminish...
...intelligentsia! The term is one that Russians most love to argue over. Yet it is used in widely different ways, and its very vagueness tends greatly to diminish the value of their conclusions. The writers of Vekhi defined the intelligentsia not in terms of the level or nature of their education but according to their ideology. They were a sort of new, religionless, humanist order...