Word: lessening
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...sell on the free market, driving down the price. But as the free-market price skidded, European central bankers feared for the value of their own gold reserves. In addition, the Europeans wanted to bring some new South African gold into the international monetary system in order to lessen their dependence on U.S. dollars as a reserve currency...
Some Faculty members undoubtedly see curricular reform as a way to channel student energies into channels they deem more constructive than occupying buildings every other week. To put it another way, changing educational patterns may be one means to lessen the general malaise contributing to the recent turmoil here...
...look of contentment that drifts across a man's face when he lights one up. No meat loaf could ever do that, and she resents it. This informative breviary of cigarabilia-kinds, sizes, shapes, how to light up, etc.-by a Swiss cigar dealer is unlikely to lessen that resentment. Mainly for men with a sense of humidor...
...sphere of rationality, sometimes only a small one, above and beyond power relations. Not everything is settled by toting up the firepower of each side; sometimes men do meet, analyze a question on its merits, and decide accordingly. The power politics approach of current radical movements, however, tends to lessen and even to destroy this sphere of rational political discussion and decision. In the long run, it makes the university a replica of the worst, most power-oriented institutions the outside world has to offer...
...request for a preliminary injunction to stop the merger was denied by Judge William H. Timbers of the federal district court in New Haven. He rejected the trustbusters' argument that economic concentration is illegal under the Clayton Antitrust Act. Timbers ruled that the law bars only mergers that lessen competition and said that if the standard is to be changed, it ought to be done by Congress rather than the courts. Attorney General John Mitchell finds alarming the fact that the 200 largest U.S. companies control 58% of the manufacturing assets, compared with...