As more women entered paid employment, average hours of unpaid work diminished.
If the developers and builders find their work diminished, thousands will be off the payroll, with many going on public assistance or being forced to abandon the state.
Dr. West, who was Geron's visionary but did not have a significant operating role, left the company in 1998 as its emphasis on anti-aging work diminished.
Since the late 1980s, a long list of high-profile Chinese exiles who were granted refuge in the United States have found their work diminished, or their reputations compromised.
But because of the decline of the sugar industry and mechanization, the amount of available work diminished steeply so that some farmers were working only one day a week by the late 1990s, said farmers and union officials.
The farm workers at Hacienda Luisita voted in favor of that plan, but because of mechanization and the decline of the sugar industry, the amount of available work diminished steeply, farmers and union officials have said.
Inexorably and, to the South Vietnamese, inexplicably, the number of shells their guns were allowed to fire, the number of missions their aircraft could fly and the spare parts available to keep equipment working diminished month by month.
With respect to the "everybody else" cost-benefit analysis, we should be sure to include all societal costs (not only the extra cost in health care dollars), like reduced immune response to communicable disease (even common colds), time lost from work, diminished earning capacity, and impaired child rearing and family relationships.
In later years, the reputation of the work diminished.
I wondered if my intense relationship with my work diminished my relationships with family, friends, potential lovers, ex-lovers, and so on.
