1.   Resulting misclassification will tend to dilute the effect of smoking and so our risk estimates are likely to be underestimates.

2.   But since this money typically is not funneled through banks and is dispersed in small amounts around the country, its economic effect is diluted.

3.   But they had not mastered the computer, and Rubin said its effect was diluted for them.

4.   If the key elements are spread too thinly among too much fruit, their effect is diluted.

5.   In anointing Vice President Al Gore as his successor, Clinton might dilute the effect of his lame-duck status.

6.   Ms. Fox, an associate professor of English, long wondered how to present those stories without trivializing them or diluting their effect.

7.   That means the market is flooded with generics, which will dilute any effect.

8.   They could add more, thus diluting the effects of any population shifts.