Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not meant to diminish Hall's excellent rendering of the play, however...
...their destinations-and the U.S. will enter a sterner, more painful new era of energy shortages. These huge ships were the last to be loaded before the Arab states blocked all petroleum shipments to the U.S. in retaliation for American support of Israel. The Arab move is expected to diminish by a disruptive 18% or more the minimum flow of fuel that the nation needs to run its industries and farms, heat and light its homes, schools and offices, and keep its cars, trucks, buses and planes moving...
...year-round Daylight Saving Time, as President Nixon requested in his emergency message two weeks ago. The measure is expected to get final approval soon after Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess and will probably take effect in early January. Moving the clock ahead one hour is expected to diminish energy...
...have influenced U.S. policy in them only by a direct vote ordering him to stand down-which is hardly sitting still. In an age of nuclear confrontation, all too much decisiveness can occur within 90 minutes, much less 90 days, and the war-powers resolution does not seem to diminish the President's necessary power to respond to superpower challenges. As for whether the measure might unwittingly extend presidential war powers, Javits convincingly argues in his recently published book, Who Makes War (TIME, Nov. 12), that the precedent for executive activism is well established in real life, whatever...
...Reduced the Government's allocations of jet fuel for aircraft, a move that will diminish the number of commercial flights by more than...