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• v  decrease in size, extent, or range
• v  make smaller
• a  becoming less or smaller
• a  music

• So was another innovation: decreasing the decision-making power of political cadres in plants and increasing the power of local managers.
• Reduce that waste by purchasing more-efficient appliances and tightening up insulation to avoid heat loss from your home, and you're already decreasing your dependence on the grid.
• We've seen credit-card companies decreasing lines of credit, and the debtors don't have any room left.

• decrease
• diminish
• lessen
• fall
• minify

• increase
• increasing

News & Articles

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• Counterintuitive? Healthy snack reformulation claims are decreasing, Mintel
  Claims like low sodium, low fat and low calorie on snacks are decreasing which seems counterintuitive given action is being taken by manufacturers, said the director of innovation and insights at Mintel.
  June 14, 2013 - Food Navigator USA
• Fort Collins' trek to bicycle nirvana depends on more riders, fewer accidents
  For Fort Collins to advance to a pinnacle of bicycle friendliness that rivals some international locales, the city must increase ridership while at the same time decreasing accidents.
  June 14, 2013 - The Fort Collins Coloradoan
• Legos are getting angrier and could harm children's development: researcher
  Corbis/Splash NewsLego characters are getting "angrier" and could be harming children's development, a new report claims. The faces on Lego toys are getting angrier- and it may be harming children's development, researchers warn. The number of happy faces on Legos is decreasing, and more angry faces are...
  June 13, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• President Bush in CNN
  President Bush said in a statement, Jackson "made significant progress in transforming public housing, revitalizing and modernizing the Federal Housing Administration, increasing affordable housing, rebuilding the Gulf Coast, decreasing...
• Barack Obama in guardian.co.uk
  For the first time in history we have set in motion a national policy aimed at increasing gas mileage and decreasing greenhouse gas pollution for all new trucks and cars sold in the United States,Obama told state governors, including...
• Michael Dell in International Herald Tribune
  We're decreasing our head count,Dell said. "It's declined in the past two quarters and it will decline again in the first quarter. And we will go past the 8,800 target previously discussed as we achieve everything that I'm outlining...