Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean when one finds somebody responsible for an act because he should have known what would happen? He is not imputing stupidity; the person would probably be let off the hook for merely behaving stupidly. Is he implying gross incompetence or a shallow carelessness? Perhaps, but these contentions, too, lessen the degree of personal culpability. No, when someone in authority is told that he ought to have anticipated a disaster, it means that the grand total of his professional experience and knowledge demanded, beyond reasonable doubt, that he behave differently than he did. Indeed, it is also beyond reason able...
...even the fact that the tirumph came over such a lowly team could lessen the importance of last night's win. The Crimson had taken a two-week break from competition and had not practiced as a unit until Tuesday...
...example, to lessen the amount of windfalls, the Administration could exclude already-hired teenagers from eligibility for the tax credit. It wasn't until two years after the start of Targeted Jobs that Carter decided to forbid retroactive certification, under which two-thirds of workers being subsidized claimed eligibility...
...nutty to do more than gesture," said a top U.S. diplomat in Washington. "We would certainly not want to change the substance of our policy merely because they have changed leaders in Moscow." President Reagan scheduled a speech Monday in which he was to propose "confidence-building" measures to lessen the danger of nuclear war by accident, like advance notification by each side to the other of all test missile launches. But those ideas only repeat suggestions that Reagan made publicly last June. The President also planned to announce a basing mode for the new MX missile, a decision that...
...Giamatti's broad text. Yale officials like Cozza and athletic director for Frank Ryan maintain that Giamatti has always been a strong sports enthusiast. They point out that he regularly attends Yale sporting events be never indicated he wanted to do anything unilaterally and in general he wants to lessen the pressures facing the athletes. Although the speech wasn't very popular. Ryan admits that Giamatti merely wanted to clarify. Yale's perspective on athletics...