Word: reductionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Addressing arms cuts, an emergency NATO meeting in Brussels last week demanded that the Soviet military honor all treaties and cease violations and evasions of last year's Europe-wide agreement on troop and conventional-arms rollbacks. Japanese opinion makers, meanwhile, were hoping to extend the arms- reduction process to...
The new leadership that supplants the Old Guard will have to brace itself for a further restructuring of the army, which has already suffered strains as a result of the changes brought about under Gorbachev. The military's claim on the national budget, still about one-third of all government...
CELERY. Long valued (for their low calorie content) as diet food, the green stalks may be even better for the heart. Researchers at the University of Chicago reported in April that rats experienced a 12% to 14% drop in systolic blood pressure and a substantial reduction in cholesterol levels after...
The Governor gripes that his state has become a "welfare magnet" for out- of-state poor because Wisconsin -- despite a reduction of AFDC outlays of 6% to fund Thompson's reforms -- has some of the highest benefits in the nation. In 1989 he proposed a two-tier system that would...
PCR-based diagnostic tests are also under development for Lyme disease, tuberculosis and viral meningitis. Present tests for tuberculosis, which involve culturing and growing the bacteria, take up to a month to confirm a diagnosis. PCR can do the job in a few hours. Current tests are unable to distinguish...