Word: diminishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons cited for the cut in the March 31 Crimson story is that Radcliffe can no longer afford to serve "outsiders" with its limited budget. This seemed like a good reason to diminish a service until I realized that I, a graduate student at Harvard, was one of the "outsiders" which President Horner feels it is not Radcliffe's job to give intellectual and emotional support...
...friends, his former students, which took him to Chile after these friends had become important officials of the Pinochet regime. If Professor Harberger's loyalty to his friends is really as great as he claims, then it can be safely inferred that moving from Chicago to Cambridge will not diminish the strength of this feeling. And this means that Harberger's friends will become our friends, whether we like...
...larger ponds would be needed. Physicist Harry Tabor, chief architect of Israel's solar pond program, notes, for instance, that surfaces of large solar ponds must be crisscrossed with plastic baffles. These gridlike barriers prevent winds from churning up the water, which would mix the critical layers and diminish the pond's effectiveness as a heat collector. But Israeli officials, who hope to build a five-megawatt pond within two years, are confident that the difficulties in scaling up the ponds can be overcome. They are thinking of a whole network of solar ponds bordering the Dead...
...Rhone Valley town of Tricastin, engineers have begun operating a uranium enrichment plant that is designed to diminish European reliance on the U.S. for enriched reactor fuel. To increase the amount of energy they can get from a given amount of uranium, the French also operate one of the world's largest plants for reprocessing spent fuel rods to extract unused uranium 235 and plutonium. But retreating nuclear fuel this way also produces highly radioactive liquid wastes that must be stored indefinitely. The French now refrigerate the waste and store it in double stainless-steel tanks, sheathed in reinforced...
...course, the general principle that we should back peoples rather than governments does not offer any precise guidelines for policy makers dealing with immediate crises like Afghanistan. On the other hand, its implementation should diminish the likelihood of our continually facing "Afghanistans;" that is, constantly having to "react' to situations which are already well beyond our control. If beginning with the Arab-Israeli conflict seems overly ambitious, this is justified by the gravity and potential dangers of that particular situation at the real level, and by the fact that at the symbolic level, the value in the Arab and Muslim...