Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a system, he said, "would tend to diminish the importance of cohesive minority blocks in large states, which would not then be the great prize of the present. Thus, by eliminating the "winner-take-all" principle and thereby increasing the importance of all votes, direct election would "stimulate opposition parties in present one-party states...
Applications to Radcliffe have decreased in number this year and will continue to diminish in the future, Margaret W. Stimpson, dean of Admissions, said yesterday...
...would have to be optimistic almost to the point of complete naivete to believe that the need for United Nations intervention will diminish," Paul Martin, Canadian Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, told an audience of 250 at Agassiz Theater last night...
Another fault of the new plan is that the individual Houses will probably lose their images, one element of the House system worth preserving. Equal distribution according to Rank List, school background, and field of concentration, with no provision for Masters' and students' choices, may diminish the particular character of each unit...
...half the book follows the genesis and execution of the East German mission, and the technical details never seem false or obtrusive. One believes that such preparation would be sufficient for a real-life as well as a fictional undercover agent. Once in East Germany, the man's mistakes diminish our hopes that somehow he will succeed only to excite our curiosity as to precisely how he will fail...