Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade deficit will diminish this year, but the dollar will remain weak against the mighty German mark and Swiss franc...
This guy has been mailing his film columns in from Lincoln for a long time, and nobody had ever met him or even laid eyes on him. He was horribly disfigured many years ago, when a projector blew up in his face, but even that little incident didn't diminish his love for "la cine," as we say in France...
...very traditions of a strong power do not allow the leaders of totalitarian states to react directly to pressure exerted against them. At the same time, boycotts weaken realistically useful contacts and diminish the number of levers that can be used to apply pressure in the future...
...companies argue that the federal controls on gas prices that were imposed during the fuel panic touched off by the 1973 oil embargo discourage investment in new refineries because the return on investment is too low when compared with that produced by other operations. As supplies diminish, more and more oil firms are limiting deliveries of both leaded and unleaded to dealers. Two weeks ago Texaco joined American Petrofina and Phillips Petroleum in allocating supplies, and last week Chevron sought Government permission to take similar steps. Says Texaco Vice President Annon Card: "If demand keeps going...
...hope is deluded. The stripped-down Protestant faith of the townsmen should have readied them for that. Where two or three are gathered together, there first of all is Satan: pride of self, envy, greed. While it seems a near certainty that Plains' magnetism for tourists will diminish (when I was there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy or his mother or wife or his sad younger brother...