Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As Baker prepared for his first full-fledged meeting with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze in Moscow on May 10, the Administration was still in the dark. Washington had used every public and private avenue to press its message, but it had heard nothing from Moscow since Shevardnadze's rejection of the...
Though both the U.S. and Hong Kong would have suffered greater financial losses than China if MFN status had not been renewed, Beijing can ill afford the estimated $3 billion or more that revocation would have cost mainland enterprises. Despite the success of a stringent austerity program in cooling the...
Officials are concerned worried that a sharp reduction in lending could jolt the U.S. economy into a slump. Such fears were underscored last week when the Government reported that the gross national product grew at an annual rate of just 1.3% in the first quarter, down from a previously estimated...
Baker looked tired when he finally emerged from discussions he described as "heavy lifting." The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had reached a "trail- blazing" agreement to ban superpower production of chemical weapons and to destroy existing stockpiles that, said Baker, could serve as a model for the global ban now...
Which does not mean the millennium has arrived. For one thing, an intricate verification procedure remains to be completed. Also, START in some ways seems designed to curb the arms race of the 1980s rather than the one that might occur in the '90s; it makes its greatest reductions in...