Word: diminisher
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...intrusion into the function of editors." Decisions as to what is or is not published, the court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that press successes in Watergate would not diminish challenges by legislatures, law-enforcement officials and grand juries. Many journalists fear that Watergate has created a backlash against a press perceived as having grown too powerful...
...their economies with heavy purchases of industrial goods and machinery from the U.S., Europe and Japan. But the Arabs so far have shown " little interest in helping the Third World. Perhaps that attitude will change, and the reluctance to make long-term investments in the industrialized world will diminish as the Arabs become more sophisticated in handling immense wealth. The question is whether a change in attitudes will come quickly enough to avoid bankruptcy for some of the Arabs' best customers...
...women who are responsible for running Radcliffe's Office of Women's Education hope that the need for their work will diminish over time. But they feel that phasing out the year-old office must wait upon the presence of greater numbers of women in the Harvard community and an increased commitment to their education. For the moment, in their opinion, the value of such an office is obvious...
Already battered by soaring inflation and a declining economy, the nation's housing industry recently has been jolted by another blow: skyscraping interest rates that are drying up mortgage money and threaten to depress construction even further. A continuing slide in housing would seriously diminish chances for an economic upturn later this year, and last week the Administration attempted a rescue. President Nixon announced a series of steps that would pump $10.3 billion in cash and credits into the sagging industry...
...motives weren't entirely economic. This clearly was not the case. Selling, for many, is an integral aspect of exhibiting; in the case of this particular exhibition, it was partially necessitated by the cost incurred by participation. Were exhibitions more frequent, the obtrusiveness of this economic aspect would diminish...