Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threaten Iran's oil exports. Though the missiles cannot knock out the installations at Kharg island, which are well defended and have already withstood Iraqi bombing, the Exocets could be used to discourage vulnerable tankers from calling at the Iranian port. Without ever firing a shot, Iraq could diminish Tehran's main flow of income, thus crippling Iran's ability to wage a war of attrition against the economically strapped Iraqis...
...most important provision of the legislation is also the most controversial. Since it is the hope of a job that draws most aliens across the border, sponsors of the bill sought to diminish that lure by imposing civil and criminal penalties on employers who knowingly hire illegals...
...dumping vodka and painting over our red cars are ridiculous acts of protest. The shooting down of the plane was in part a result of the increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. If relations between the two nations improved, the weapons buildup and covert activities would diminish, thus lessening the chance for more of these tragic incidents...
...over how tax moneys should be used. Furthermore, with a declining white birth rate, minorities could make up one-third of public school enrollments by 1990 (they are already 27% today). If, as a result, public schools are perceived as institutions for the underprivileged, middle-class support may diminish even more...
...this is wry social comedy, marvelous in its authenticity. But there is a harder side to Pym, an acute knowledge of the heart's foolishness, of the forces that isolate and diminish the aging, of the helplessness of the poor and the unlucky to alter the course of their lives. "Distressed gentlewoman" is a phrase that echoes sadly through her writing. The Sweet Dove Died-an exception among her novels, since neither clergymen nor anthropologists figure in it-is about a vain, middle-aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin...