Word: diminisher
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Person of the Week HOT AIRNESS Everyone's got a Michael Jordan un-retiring rumor?Sports Illustrated, Washington Wizards' owner Abe Pollin, even golf buddy Mario Lemieux?and he's been playing some pickup ball. But why would M.J. diminish his legend just so the Wizards can lose by fewer points...
...videos on long-haul buses, but nothing has been done to halt the practice of provincial theaters to creatively splice a few minutes of hard-core porn into their main features. Films such as Live Show, which tries to explore the poverty behind sexual degradation, may actually serve to diminish the audience for pornography...
...think for those who want to diminish the size of the tax cut, that would be inadvisable," he said. "And for those who want to increase the size of the tax cut, it would be inadvisable. It's the right size...
...Wahid's grip on power, then, was predicated on playing the different power centers off against one another. The scale of his defeat Thursday suggests the strategy may have backfired: On one side of the power equation, he had antagonized the generals by attempting to diminish the power they'd traditionally wielded and accepting independence for East Timor. On the other, he had made enemies of the business and political elite of the Suharto era by pressing corruption charges against the former dictator and his family. To Megawati's allies, he was increasingly being seen as a dangerous and unstable...
...charge. It was as if everyone had underestimated him and by the time they wised up he was in control. This isn't easy to do in Texas, where the governor's office is weak, as Bush's opponents never tired of pointing out as they tried to diminish his experience as governor. In fact, this criticism should be turned on its head. That Bush took charge despite the inherent weakness of his office is something no other governor has been able to do since John Connally in the early '60s. Bush wooed the Democratic leader of the Senate...