Word: diminisher
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...party, the most powerful outside the Iron Curtain, was already on Tito's doorstep. Rumania was sending a delegation, and also the French Communist Party, hitherto cool towards the Yugoslavs. Pravda reported that differences between the Yugoslav and Soviet Communist Parties had "considerably lessened" and were "continuing to diminish...
What can the world expect during the next century as its population increases and its resources diminish? Last week in Manhattan three Caltech experts, Geochemist Harrison Brown, Biologist James F. Bonner and Psychologist John R. Weir, who have been studying this problem as a team, were optimistic-with qualifications...
...need for the purge will not diminish with the growing stability of the totalitarian regime," he says. "It appears to be a perpetual process of shifting, reshifting, eliminating, pushing down, promoting, intimidating." The book is based on Soviet sources and reports of former citizens...
...Adams reads the morning papers while Rachel prepares breakfast (fruit, two eggs and-he thinks-Sanka). He is at the White House desk, emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the U.S., by 7:30, plunging deep into the stack of papers that never seems to diminish. The rest of the day is accurately crowded: conferences, sometimes as many as three at a time, with Adams circulating among them; a parade of visitors; dozens of telephone calls; and, always, papers and more papers. Generally, Adams takes time out only to have lunch in the staff dining room, but occasionally...
...ironically, almost precisely where the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Co. abandoned a test drilling in 1947 after going down 3,500 ft. The strike promised a major oil field, sufficient at least to save Israel $50 million* in oil imports a year, weaken the Arab states' blockade and diminish the country's dependence on the West. For the first time since their state was established, Israelis now saw the means to economic independence in their grasp. This produced an almost immediate stiffening of political independence as well...