Word: lessens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...country's GDP comes from the production of oil and natural gas. Of course, it's hard to find people these days who think the price of oil is set to plunge, but a deep recession in the developed world - led by the gas-guzzling U.S. - could lessen demand and drive the price down more sharply than many expect...
...impossible to walk, says John Pinchao, a Colombian police officer who had been held with them until he escaped last spring, their captors gave them boots so small it made their steps only more agonizing. (The rebels finally hacked off the toes of the boots with machetes to lessen the pain.) Pinchao says the men trekked for days until they reached a FARC camp in the Sierra de la Macarena, where they were initially penned together in a slung cage whose low, barbed-wire ceiling prevented them from standing up. "Despite being held together like that, [FARC guards] forbade them...
...tuition in the form of loans, the initiative represents an admirable step toward ensuring that cost need not dissuade talented students from pursuing careers in medicine, regardless of those students’ means or background. The decision to expand aid was largely motivated by hopes that reducing indebtedness might lessen the burden on recent graduates to select “more lucrative specialties”—such as plastic surgery—after graduation. The medical school sees higher debts as the impetus behind a trend that has seen a decrease in the proportion of the school?...
...performance,” said HMS professor William H. Maisel, one of the study’s authors. The researchers cautioned, though, that there have been no reported cases of a pacemaker being hacked and a patient’s health being jeopardized. But Maisel said this should not lessen the need for security features in the development of such products. A press release by Medtronic, the company that manufactures the Maximo, said they look forward to examining the relevant security issues with researchers and regulators. They also said that newer devices with wider transmission ranges were equipped with safety...
...HMI’s backers worry that the trend toward centralizing Harvard’s international efforts—given that it has meant spinning off part of HMI—will lessen Harvard’s impact abroad...