Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle appears to diminish...
...Body" is a tender story-even beautiful-but by no critic's standards is it a work of art. This story, however, acknowledges that reality, and deals with it. As Gordie remarks, "the most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It's hard to make strangers care about the good things is your life...
...issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will not easily be reversed. No one, for example, is about to rip insulation from walls or trade-in a fuel efficient compact for an oversized gas guzzler. But efforts to find alternative energy sources will diminish and conservation policies in general will take on less urgency...
...ought to have a very good reason for putting in another system...which could substantially diminish the free choice of students. I don't see that compelling a case made...
...fault lies not in the colorful building but in ourselves. Our senses have been dulled by the gray and numbing effect of incessant modernism. The irregular lines of Graves' design are intriguing, the placid colors pleasing, and the size does not diminish us. This happy building is refreshing, not threatening...