Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
Wilson comes to the job from a scholarly background in chemistry, and more recent experience in research and policy administration. She is less known for her scholarship than for her work on scientific research committees, fundraising and university administration...
George Bush's political gifts include a keen sense of balance: when he finds himself out on a limb, he usually edges back to a less shaky perch. After finally realizing that his Administration's less than enthusiastic reaction to Mikhail Gorbachev's headline-catching arms-control gambits was alienating the NATO allies he will meet with this week in Brussels, the President decided a more positive response was required...
...leads to intimidation of the South's burgeoning democracy. Japan, unsure about its new global political role, will almost certainly be next to receive the full brunt of the Gorbachev charm offensive. That's bad only if it dilutes the Washington-Tokyo relationship and forces the U.S. into a less central role in Asia...
...despite the reassurances, the political summit may prove to be anything but "no problem." What really deserved welcome was less the talks inside the Great Hall of the People than the protests outside, in Tiananmen Square. Crackdown or not, the protests were the "healthy development...