Word: diminisher
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Wiser's prime argument was that an Eastern-American merger would unduly diminish competition in air transport. The merged line would be the world's largest...
...Beeching's bitter pills." Totally unruffled by criticism, Beeching says his goal is to convert the railways from "a political shuttlecock" into a lean, efficient business. Should he do it, Beeching would achieve distinction as a bureaucrat who disobeyed Parkinson's Law and actually managed to diminish a bureaucracy...
...sloth, pigritia (slackness), is gaining: people have "'no time' to read or cook or even to dress decorously, while in their offices and workshops they do less and less, in quality and quantity. for ever larger wages with which to pay larger taxes for services that diminish in quantity and quality...
...strategic planning, the importance of strategic bases overseas has waned in the last couple of years, and will continue to diminish in the years ahead. Polaris missile submarines have given the U.S. a mighty strategic wallop that is independent of fixed bases overseas. The U.S.'s growing force of operational ICBMs - Atlas, Titan and, before long, Minuteman - is being stationed entirely within the U.S. But as long as Communism seeks world domination, the U.S. will continue to need military installations abroad. The current roster...
Crosland admitted that entering the Market would diminish Britain's ties with the Commonwealth. However, he contended that it was "morally right" for these ties to be reduced. Besides, trade between Britain and the Commonwealth nations would gradually decline regardless of whether Britain joins Europe...