Word: lessening
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...lessen demand for electricity, 750,000 lights have been removed from federal buildings in Washington. Officials in St. Paul, facing severe fuel shortages, plan to close schools in January and February. Seattle City Light is offering awards to customers who show the greatest improvement in scaling down electrical usage. First prize: five telephone poles...
...lessen the pressure on Nixon to resign if the Watergate scandal worsens. Having gone through one traumatic resignation, runs the argument, the nation would have less will for a second...
...male-female ratio that President Bok announced two years ago has resulted in an increase of about 300 students. The new dorm, which will be called Canaday Hall after Ward M. Canaday '07, the Toledo, Ohio oil magnate who donated the $3 million building fee, will lessen the crowded housing conditions in the Yard and the Houses...
...withdraw to her former degree of separateness, or yet become totally "merged." Because women still remain in a minority at most levels within the University, and will undoubtedly remain so for some time to come, total absorption into a complex organization with a multitude of other pressing concerns could lessen the volume of women's voices considerably. The present separate advocacy will not permit this...
...with Prohibition, the laws don't lessen the demand, but they do limit suppliers to those willing to violate the law. Antiquities should be regarded as natural resources, to be exported to those that value them highly. Give the discoverer a percentage for finding the antiquities, set up some minimal requirements for the sake of archaeology and make exporting routine...