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The competition for those diminished federal dollars would be fierce.
We will import less oil, invent and export more clean-tech products, send fewer dollars overseas to buy oil and, most importantly, diminish the dollars that are sustaining the worst petro-dictators in the world who indirectly fund terrorists and the schools that nurture them.
Beyond the hiring of the pseudo-art detective, the Commission has also established a fundraising initiative titled ArtCare to help secure private funds for their conservation projects in lieu of diminishing public dollars.
Over time, diminished demand for dollars would make it harder for the United States to finance itself at low interest rates.
President Obama has continued this policy, diminishing the dollar's reserve-currency status and drawing developing countries into June's dump-the-dollar summit in Russia.
The diminishing dollarThe dollar hit a four-year low against the euro, nearing the rate at which the single currency was launched in 1999.
Typically, the payments on these policies are made at a single fixed rate for the life of the policy, meaning that as policyholders age, they pay the exact same amount, only in inflation-diminished dollars.
With the dollar diminished and financial institutions in the doghouse, a hard nugget suddenly seems a safer bet than an ephemeral derivative.
As a result of these deceptions and illegalities wars were needlessly fought, massacres were encouraged, American credibility was diminished, untold billions of dollars was wasted, clouds of mendacity and bad faith circulated everywhere--and all for nothing.
