Word: diminisher
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Doctors cannot as yet offer a cure, but they can provide some relief from the most severe symptoms. Zinc sulfate capsules diminish the disease's sensory distortion. Why the metallic medicine helps is uncertain, but it can make eating tolerable, if not pleasurable...
Burns and most independent economists contend that neither phase has gone according to plan. The federal pressures did not substantially impede inflation and tended to diminish consumer confidence. Even as jobs became scarcer, unions demanded higher, rather than smaller wage increases. Burns argues that Government must act to discourage both wage and price increases; the Fed has recently moved against inflation by raising the discount rate...
...Flattened" verse? "Depressed" poetic quality? To the contrary, had Baker spent more time and thought on his survey, he would have found well-rounded verse, perhaps even a new renaissance in the poetry of the past two decades. Greater quantity does not necessarily diminish quality, but merely makes it more difficult to discern, as Lowell intimated...
...Nixon Administration's main argument against a more expansionary program is that it might spur inflation. Yet if the Administration could offer a policy of economic stimulation, businessmen and parts of organized labor might well accept voluntary price and wage restraints. Then the fear of climbing prices would diminish. The benefits of such a move are clear. Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that living costs in June climbed .5% on a seasonably adjusted basis-the second sharpest rise this year...
...would affect only those who can afford it. It might fractionally tone down today's price levels, and no doubt would be strenuously opposed by some art dealers and collectors. It would not solve all conservation problems, but it would contribute a precious measure of alleviation and diminish art's humiliating dependence on erratic charity. Most of all, it could mitigate the crushing sense of waste and meaninglessly flamboyant consumption that anyone who cares about art and its priorities is apt to feel on reading about the cost of next week's Louis XVI table...