Word: diminisher
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...much can the new campaign really diminish inflation? That, of course, depends upon how vigorously it is pursued and how much price fixing the Government can actually uncover. Trustbusting crusades are always vulnerable to political pressures, a point underscored when the Nixon White House prodded the Justice Department to permit ITT to keep Hartford Fire Insurance Co. despite the Administration's initial, loudly voiced opposition to conglomerate mergers. ITT did agree in 1971 to sell off some lesser firms, but it has still not disposed of its 52% interest in Avis, Inc.; last week the Justice Department moved...
These facts have been documented, corroborated and accepted nationally and internationally, and accepted by the United Nations in reports and official stances. Polaroid has used such evasiveness, denials and "spare-part" theory (vis-a-vis many S.A. suppliers) in order to diminish international response to the international boycott called by the PRWM...
Dean Whitlock was also pessimistic yesterday. "The numbers of Harvard and Radcliffe students accepted at graduate schools will diminish because of this law," he predicted...
...programs that help the poor--and for economic controls have not even been seriously debated. Of course these proposals are only short-term cures and even then only for inflation and economic slowdown. They could not begin to provide fulfilling work for more men and women, or to diminish the massive concentration of this nation's economic power in a few hands, or make a dent in the even greater disparity in wealth between the industrial nations and the rest of the world...
Kissinger Syndrome. The direct power of Kadushin's intellectuals seems limited mainly to the ability to enhance or diminish each other's reputations. It is a power exercised largely through their journals, around which loose groups or cliques form, and it is diminished by the fact that intellectuals who take high jobs in Washington tend to lose their credentials temporarily. The most obvious case is Henry Kissinger. His name is nowhere on the official list, an omission that Kadushin informally corrects by noting that Kissinger is "a leading American intellectual." The Kissinger syndrome may also explain the absence...