Word: lessening
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...have to bring something useful and beneficial out of this tragedy," Kennedy said. "We have to mobilize our minds and our hearts to go to the community to lessen the risk of this happening again...
...elaborate showmanship of a piece like "(Go) Get It" but in the more contemplative tracks like "Travels" or "Just Like the Day." There are oceans of sorrow and hope in Metheny's tender musical treatment of the world. It's a shame he feels the need to lessen that tenderness by interspersing it with the technical know-how that so many other guitarists never move beyond. B --David D. Kornhaber...
...Station, admits that he ignores this suggestion and vends in the Square. So do other vendors. "There are only supposed to be about five or six of us in the Square," Shorey says. But there are certainly more than five or six stationed along Mass. Ave., waiting to lessen the weighty wallets of Cantabrigians. "I think the people in Cambridge are generally more generous than in Boston," says Shorey, indicating the attraction of Harvard Square. Conveniently, Spare Change's production is right in the Square at 1151 Mass...
...newly appointed chair of the global Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), Sachs is now in a position to explore how to lessen gap between "the haves and the have-nots" and raise awareness about the importance of public heath in the international community...
MAGELLAN'S RISK Fidelity wants to allow its Magellan Fund to invest as much as 25% of its assets in one company--up from 5%. This will potentially lessen the fund's diversification and increase its risk. If that worries you, better check the fine print of your other funds. Most companies already allow managers to invest up to 25% of a fund's assets in a single company, but most funds keep their maximum exposure well under...