Word: lessened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Columbia, which is in the early stages oforganizing its archives, also has a 30-year rule,although an official there says an effort isunderway to lessen that restriction...
Yeltsin is understandably concerned. While Clinton should make every effort to convince Yeltsin of the U.S.'s good faith, that doesn't change the fact that expansion potentially threatens Russian security, and it will indubitably lessen their influence in the region in the future...
...information industry is moving so fast that government officials are reluctant to intervene in any way that might slow its dynamism. In a search for creative ways to lessen the technology gap, advocates of wider access are focusing on plans to put computers and Net connections into libraries, post offices and other public places around the country to serve those who do not have home computers...
...businesses big and small wire themselves into high-speed electronic communications systems, their reliance on traditional mail will inevitably lessen. In the long run, that could leave the U.S. Postal Service, with its 40,000 branches, 780,000 employees and $50 billion annual budget, as one giant piece of roadkill on the information highway...
...issue of consequence--like ROTC, the structure of the College, or the search for the new dean--come across as bloated, bombastic and ineffectual squeals. Moreover, the council's process of arriving at these resolutions--chock full of ridiculous scandals and vituperative counter-accusations--serve only to lessen the credibility and gravity of its formal statements...