Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1982, when the Dispute with Dope really got cooking, there has been little reduction in the amount of narcotics coursing through the veins of the nation. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey of 1990, drug abuse rates were essentially flat, war or no war. Among...
Yet it was "policy-wonk heaven," said Bergthold, who noted that years of health-care ideas were being dusted off and hotly debated. And the details came together. Benefits moved fast: at a Saturday-morning session in the Roosevelt Room, a jogging suit-clad Clinton ordered Magaziner to come up...
"There has been a substantial reduction in cases," said Sgt. Lawrence J. Fennelly, who is in charge of crime prevention. "The fact is that card access control had an affect on the environment of the dorms."
Did you hear the one about the clerk who needed a full week to fill out all the papers to comply with the requirements of the government's latest initiative, the Paperwork Reduction Act?
After a summer of fighting partisan attempts to label him a "tax-and-spend liberal," Clinton's sprawling crime package should provide some much needed political relief. It allows him to do something both popular and tough before having to ask for yet another tax increase to fund his health...