Word: diminisher
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...that the Administration's prediction of easier credit had foundation (see U.S. BUSINESS). Housing, the industry most seriously depressed by tight money, will thus be assisted in making the 1967 revival that the White House expects. Activity in other sectors can be expected to accelerate as high inventories diminish...
Secularization - the historical process by which man increasingly controls the universe, thereby seeming to diminish God's dominion - sounds by definition like a threat to Christianity; in fact, it is a divine gift to man that has its roots in Biblical revelation. Such is the in sight of one of the century's greatest and least known Protestant thinkers...
Beauty & the Beast. In a sense, seeing the totality of Picasso's work establishes the various boundaries of his domain, but it does nothing to diminish the wizardry with which he exploited the subjects that caught his imagination. "Picasso's life work is the greatest enterprise of destruction and creation of forms of our time, and perhaps of all time," said France's Culture Minister André Malraux...
...more dogmatic members of the church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force it is meant...
...savings and loan associations will be limited to 4¾% on passbook savings accounts. S & Ls in California, Nevada and Alaska, which have suffered badly in the competition with banks for deposits, will be permitted 51% . For bankers, the slowdown in deposits forced by the new ceiling undoubtedly will diminish the supply of money available for lending...