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...power of local governments increases, that of Congress will diminish in the coming decades, Alexander said...
Soviet and American diplomats were back at it last week, trying to make an agreement out of the disarmament bombshells that George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev had just finished lobbing at each other. The latest round of benevolent one-upmanship is intended to diminish the danger of war, save money both countries need for domestic spending and set a good example for the rest of the world...
...Petersburg's architectural charm and rich history will do little to diminish the formidable obstacles confronting Sobchak as he tries to reform the city's economy. His advisers are working on plans to create a "free economic zone" around the city by Jan. 1, in the hope that lower taxes and fewer customs barriers will encourage foreign banks and companies to invest. So far, Moscow is going along with the idea. But even Anatoly Chubais, Sobchak's chief economic adviser, admits that the free economic zone is "a risky policy" prone to failure if Russia's economy as a whole...
...implications of Bush's proposals are far more onerous for the U.S.S.R. In his own polite and statesmanlike way, he was all but dictating to the Kremlin how it should restructure its nuclear forces so as to diminish even further the threat they pose to the rest of the world...
...position to benefit from preferential admission." In response, some scholars wonder whether socioeconomic class ought to augment race, or even replace it, as a criterion in affirmative action. Proponents say that would be fairer and, in a society of limited resources, more effective. They add that it might diminish backlash -- especially if preferences went to poor whites as well...