Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Congress took up its deficit-reduction package last week, few of the legislators knew precisely what they were voting for. Buried in the 1,000 or more pages were dozens of mysterious provisions inserted by key lawmakers during closed-door committee sessions. Known euphemistically as "rifle shots," they are...
For once the overworked phrase was apt: an era ended last week. Almost 10 years to the day after Ronald Reagan won the Presidency by promising to simultaneously cut taxes, expand defense spending, balance the federal budget and foster a new prosperity, Congress passed and sent to the White House...
Given the threat of recession, a mouse is all that could have been hoped for. Any attempt to cut the deficit to $64 billion, as the Gramm-Rudman- Hollings law requires, would have sent the economy into a tailspin. The $40 billion in deficit reduction the plan is supposed to...
Casey said he did not anticipate any other cutbacks in shuttle service, adding that the reduction in runs will not bring about a decrease in the number of shuttle bus drivers.
The great society dreamed of by John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and planned by Lyndon Johnson has not come to pass. America's racial problem is exacerbated by the de facto exclusion of blacks from the core of national politics, in part because, traditionally Democrats, they face an...