Word: diminisher
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...What's changed? Demand for security and screening technology has skyrocketed. Will it last? Yes, because the fear of more terrorist strikes is unlikely to diminish any time soon. Nevertheless, technology can't replace good old-fashioned vigilance...
...physical replicates of the star in various positions for his own erotic purposes. And in Manganese Dioxide Dreams the narrator pleasurably views his own stool specimens as if they were the ink blots of a Rorschach test. Yet no matter how far out Tanizaki goes, his narrative powers rarely diminish, always drawing the reader along with felicitous phrases or pithy descriptions such as: "The slum spread over the district like an overturned trash...
...this case, damage has already been inflicted on the civilian populace of Afghanistan; several hospitals and a United Nations facility have been destroyed by bombs. Despite these unfortunate effects of the bombing campaign, America’s first priority has remained achieving its military objectives. Ramadan should not diminish that commitment...
...terrorist threats will only get smaller still--germs, molecules, split atoms--and become the more menacing for it. Americans' greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...
...those women encounter obstacles that diminish their feelings of self-worth. Martha feels unqualified as a nurse and unable to justify the precarious nature of her work; MaryJo is objectified by the soldiers; Steele feels discriminated against both as a black and as a woman; Whitney fails in her relationships with soldiers; LeAnn engages in a romantic affair, the angry demise of which precipitates her lover’s death; and Sissy is quite simply overwhelmed by her own lack of resolve. All of their initial perceptions are challenged and ultimately overturned, and as they leave Vietnam in a helicopter...