Word: reductionism
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HUSBANDS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO PUT OFF THAT simple snip-and-stitch vasectomy procedure their wives have been urging now have a new excuse. According to a pair of reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men who have had vasectomies are 1 1/2 times as likely to...
THESE WORDS ARE FROM THE EPIGRAPH OF ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX, a book that Bill Clinton has spoken of fondly as his appreciation of F.D.R.'s style of governance has grown. The President has already proved adept at following the dark side of Machiavelli's injunction: during the...
At a time when honesty is required, any perceived disingenuousness can be fatal -- yet there has been too much of that already. Labeling Social Security tax increases as spending cuts invites ridicule, and mixing up gross and net deficit-reduction figures is similarly foolish. Correcting such lapses by demanding that...
The President makes a sound case that America's budgetary red ink in the long run will drown all hope of economic progress. To about 230 businessmen invited last Wednesday to the White House, Clinton gave some dire predictions about the U.S. "Ten years from now, if we don't...
But first Clinton made some sacrifices close to home. On Tuesday he proposed to reduce the White House staff by 350 people, which he said would satisfy his campaign promise of a 25% cut. By far the largest reduction will come at the Office of National Drug Control Policy, home...