Word: diminisher
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...many elderly people, hearing problems may lie not in their ears but in their aging brains. Our brains do a masterly job of sorting out signal from noise amid the daily din. Age can diminish this ability, which means that a senior who can hear just fine in a quiet environment may find a busy restaurant to be auditory chaos...
...this point we cannot be apathetic. We have to be involved,” Glaeser said. “We need to speak up and speak up in a way that does not diminish the fear and concerns of our colleagues, There will be far more members of the economics department [at today’s meeting] than we have seen in recent memory...
...offers a Leninist solution," says a Western diplomat in Beijing. "He doesn't want the Party out of government; he wants the Party to take over the government." The trend in China for the past 25 years, says Peking University law professor He Weifang, has been to gradually diminish the Party's reach. "Now it seems we're moving in the opposite direction...
Harvard administrators fear the cost of such a project and House masters are concerned that cable might diminish House life, according to Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan...
...just a fact,” she said. “How is it that Greenspan could still be terrifying people with the thought that it’s going to end earlier? That of course makes it likelier that the republicans will be able to diminish its effectiveness for greater numbers of people...