Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old Harvard-educated technocrat, who was responsible for implementing the unpopular austerity measures undertaken by the Madrid government during the last six years, has effectively argued that the country needs a smaller, less cumbersome bureaucracy, along with freer trade and increasing incentives for private industry. He has also called for further long-overdue reforms such as returning highly efficient state-run enterprises to private control and removing a wide range of consumer subsidies...
...many as 10 million American men suffer from chronic impotence, but not many of them are willing to talk about it, much less seek help. Besides being embarrassed, most sufferers figure that the problem must be "all in your head" and therefore difficult to treat. But they could hardly be more wrong. Medical researchers have determined that up to 75% of all cases of impotence stem from physical problems, most of which can be treated. As new types of remedies, ranging from drug therapy to surgery, come into increasingly widespread use, impotence is no longer a hopeless condition...
...therapy doctors had to offer was penile implants -- prosthetic devices that are surgically inserted into the penis to mimic an erection. Now, declares urologist Drogo Montague of the Cleveland Clinic, "the implant is the end of the treatment line." Before resorting to implants, doctors are able to draw upon less drastic remedies...
...experimenting with more sophisticated techniques: a pacemaker-like device to stimulate the nerves that initiate an erection and new drug-delivery systems that use long-term skin patches to replace frequent injections. Now that doctors have found ways to treat impotence, the goal is to make the remedies seem less intrusive and more natural...
...voters experience a right-wing religious government. But Peres and Rabin are not eager to relinquish power for the sake of ideology. For Peres the personal element is very strong: banishment to the opposition could prove fatal to his political career. For Shamir the price could be no less high. If he fulfills the promise he made to the ultra-Orthodox, he risks making enemies of America's 6 million Jews...