The state constitution has an amendment carving out public employee pension benefits from diminishment.

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The continued diminishment of broadcast TV audiences from changes in viewing habits.

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And there's a diminishment in the number of full staffed news outlets really doing that in the way they once did.

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Fortunately, he has discovered how to effectively manage father time by making the necessary adjustments to combat the diminishment of skills brought upon by age.

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The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.

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Smith expressed alarm at the prospect of its diminishment.

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That's a significant diminishment in its reach and scope.

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It seems like the diminishment gives him more power.

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Stars rounded 35, sometimes 40, with little diminishment.

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But the diminishment of the Times-Picayune is also flavored with deep irony in an this era of digital disintermediation and newspaper defeat: the New Orleans daily heroically and effectively moved to the Internet to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, providing an early model for online excellence.

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