Word: diminishes
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Section 103 of the legislation, in fact, mandates that the establishment of the agency "shall not increase the authority of federal government over education or diminish the responsibility of states and private institutions...
...took the same line at the state Republican convention when he said SALT II was "fatally flawed" and should be renegotiated. But he opposed SALT II, said Reagan, because it does not "fairly and genuinely reduce" the number of nuclear weapons, and he would support a treaty that would diminish "nuclear armaments to the point that neither country represents a threat to the other." Just three years ago, by contrast, Reagan had said that "peace does not come from weakness or retreat, it comes from restoration of American military superiority...
...also an ambitious presidential candidate and an Irish politican the old school. ("Blarney is one thing," author observes, "self-deception something else.") Connected with big-moneyed foundations, great universities ie Government, these neoconservatives exert disproportionate influence by preaching a doctrine that, the author argues, "threatens to attenuate and diminish the promise of American democracy." What are these seditious views? A certain discouraged attitude about the future and human nature in general. Misgivings about the decline of the family and the habit of hard work. A sense that some sort of religious values must be re-established in America. A notion...
Wherever one caught a glimpse in Vienna of the American and Soviet systems displayed side by side, the beauty of freedom showed through. That is not to diminish the danger from the Russians or to ignore the problems of America, but along the Danube, far from gas lines and the catcalls of presidential candidates, one appreciates an open system that renews itself...
...years. He says he is finding that the rate of change reflects the wealth of the community. "It's a very good index of inequality of income. We're using it to investigate patterns by which different income and wealth existed and the circumstances under which they disappear and diminish," Fogel explains. He adds that a number of researchers felt there was a glaring absence of the kind of information about the American economy. "Through the bureau we're filling a very important vacuum in research," he says...