Word: diminisher
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...Threat. The main stumbling block now is Makarios, who opposes any settlement that would diminish Greek Cypriot rule over the island -or, by extension, his own power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...income taxes have been cut six times since the Korean War, for a cumulative revenue loss of $40 billion a year. This year's investment and depreciation tax breaks for business and reductions in personal income taxes will give a nice push to the economy; they will also diminish tax receipts by $6.9 billion in the fiscal year that starts in July...
...same time, though, the expense of keeping U.S. military forces abroad will grow (unless offset payments from host allies also increase). The devaluation thus could diminish the U.S. role in the world in blunt military terms-and psychologically as well. Yet if the humbling of the dollar seemed to diminish American eminence, it also demonstrated that the U.S. is increasingly learning to face the inevitable and measure its power more realistically...
...Either course promises to be a rough one for Gilligan. By opting for one candidate, he would be dispersing the bargaining power of the 153-man Ohio delegation, fifth largest at the convention. On the other hand, if he chooses the increasingly unfashionable favorite-son road, he would diminish his personal reputation as a reformer, contravene the spirit of the broadening changes in delegate-selection rules formulated by the Democratic Party (TIME, Dec. 6) and risk attack for political bossism...
Nixon's strokes of foreign policy have done nothing to diminish his drawing power in the world's capitals. When the White House announced his forthcoming summits with the leaders of four key allies-Britain, West Germany and Japan, as well as France-the result was something like a global diplomatic stampede. Governments in Latin America, Asia and even Africa began sounding out their chances of making the list. Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau demanded an invitation by telex -and got the White House O.K. within an hour. Italy's Premier Emilio Colombo also...