Word: lessening
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...might very well have led to more efficient technologies or to greater emphasis on conservation. The long-term solution to our energy troubles, after all, won't come from increasing supply simply because our supply for energy is not yet unlimited. The one effective means we have is to lessen our demand. Perhaps, had prices been left alone, this might actually have occurred...
...make as a result of the activities of the free market have been anaesthetized by political will in the opposite direction. This political will becomes the most powerful weapon against the Bush administration's incredibly short-sighted and frighteningly irreversible environmental agenda: Our society cannot afford to lessen its impact by misplacing its faith in the market...
...your health. Isn't it time that the long-suffering coach-class travelers make some demands on the international airlines? How about giving us a modicum of extra seating space to improve comfort in what I call the cattle class? And what about cleaner, fresher cabin air to lessen the likely spread of bacterial infections? It is ironic that we probably experienced a better quality of cabin air before smoking was prohibited. SYLVIA GON Johannesburg...
...retrain, refocus and reshape the welfare system county by county, inspiring a hands-on, more heartfelt attitude among hardened social workers and abuse investigators. Greater emphasis was placed on restrengthening and rebuilding families by setting up programs in their own neighborhoods and communities in order to lessen the disruption of children's lives. The average stay in foster care dropped from 14 months to three. Alabama, though a rural state in the American South, won early praise for its progressive ideas and was considered a potential model for national reform...
Newman spoke for all of the schools when she concluded that space needs will not lessen over time...