Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In 1990 the U.S. Department of Health unveiled the Healthy People 2000 Goals, an ambitious framework of 22 programs aimed at disease prevention. One goal was to reduce the percentage of overweight Americans from 25% to 20% by the turn of the century. It was, for the Bush Administration, an...
Brandeis may have been correct that the states are better able to experiment in search of novel public-policy solutions. But most public-policy dilemmas of today do not await novel solutions. They await the simple will to make unpleasant tradeoffs between our desire for government services and our desire...
This effect would also undermine unit cohesion. According to military experts the distrust and anxiety homosexuals would create would make it difficult for a unit to act as a team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations...
Some things, however, Pitts never talked about. A surprising number of his power clients came quietly to him to experiment with the new hair-growing potions. Pitts would say none of them really worked satisfactorily. But that was about all this wonderfully open and hearty man kept secret. When people...
Freeman said the existing knowledge about Norwalk is based largely on an "experiment" on some high school seniors.