Word: lessens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. But, I saw the stimulus as necessary to lessen the risk of a far more serious recession than we are now experiencing...
...blanket-yarn market has disappeared, but we're developing a different yarn that will replace it," says Patrick. "This is unlike any recession we have experienced in most of our lifetimes, and it's cutting across virtually all segments of the economy. So we're doing everything possible to lessen the impact and create new avenues for business." It's a lesson that many in the U.S. textile business never learned...
...easy to sit back and complain that final clubs have taken over the social scene, with their large dancing spaces and ample room for coats. Having a student- administered building would put a degree of social autonomy into the hands of any single undergraduate and might lessen the victimized tone of the social opportunities-discussion...
...reality in a country where roughly six years ago cellphone were virtually nonexistent. For Dorsey and other tech executives visiting Baghdad, the merging of cell technology and the Internet looks like a potential leapfrog move in telecommunications for the country, much in the way cellphone networks lessen the need for traditional landline infrastructure. "We feel that there are some real opportunities here," said Jason Liebman, CEO and founder of Howcast, a website that offers how-to videos. (See the top 10 celebrity twitter feeds...
...prisoner is waterboarded repeatedly, as Zubaydah and Mohammed were, it's tempting to believe that the effect would lessen over time; that the victim would no longer fear drowning, knowing that his interrogator would stop the process in time. But waterboarding can be so intense-and the fear of drowning so primal-that each time would be a fresh trauma. Worse, being waterboarded repeatedly raises the possibility that something could go wrong and the detainee could, in fact, drown. (Read "Torture Memos Released...