Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their careers on uncritical pro-Sovietism and yours build their careers on blind anti-Sovietism. John F. Kennedy was right when he said that the real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop in the U.S.S.R. because they need an unfree Soviet Union as a bogeyman to frighten their voters and to prevent more talented, democratic and tolerant people from gaining control of the country's destiny...
...agents by our agents." I was amazed, and I asked him why they would have done that. He smiled at my naivete and said, "Because our people wanted to take advantage of the situation, and your people took the bait. Because of Viet Nam, our standing has begun to diminish both at home and abroad. We needed a propaganda counterweight." The cynical logic of this was shattering. There is more to this story, but the time has not come to tell it. I am parting the curtain on this episode for the first time in 21 years...
...about 15 to 25 percent within six years and at least that for developing virus-related symptoms outside the standard definition of AIDS. Although there is no data on infection that last longer than six years, there is no reason to believe that the risk of developing symptoms will diminish with time. People with symptoms of infection have been observed only to get worse or stay the same; they don't get better as time goes...
...sensitizing the nation on the moral issue of race?" But others who value that contribution just as highly say an unvarnished understanding of the complex man and his struggles with the FBI -- and with himself -- provides a deeper appreciation of the larger crusade he waged. The book does not diminish the heroic nature of his struggle, but instead makes it more real...
While economists oppose cutting the deficit by too much, too fast, they agree that doing nothing to diminish the level of federal red ink could be equally dangerous. Massive Government borrowing soaks private savings out of the economy, leaving fewer funds available for business investment. Most ^ ominous, the national debt may exceed $2.2 trillion this year. The interest payments on that gargantuan sum already threaten to put an intolerable burden on future generations. Says Roger Noll, a professor of economics at Stanford: "What we will see happen as a result of continuing deficits is the slow, persistent erosion...