Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is a culture for which Suharto, Indonesia's dictator of 32 years, bears much responsibility. Six months ago Suharto was ousted, leaving behind a weak successor as President--B.J. Habibie--a paralyzed economy, a military discredited for killing student demonstrators and a nation struggling to find some vision of...
Harvard students can explain anything from the Kantian moral imperative to the Gram-Schmidt reduction of linear algebra with the fluency of a matriarch's Yiddish and the passion reserved for TV evangelists. But ask them what they want to do after graduation and responses stall and stutter.
But a decade ago, when Folkman found a drugthat successfully stifled angiogenesis andresulted in marked reduction in tumor size, thescientific world began to pay attention.
In 1955, Douglas Allanbrook '48 played the piano reduction of his Ethan Frome for Aaron Copland, who tentatively promised to give the opera a New York premiere after requesting a second play-through. Soon after, however, Copeland finished his own Tender Land, which he produced instead. "Immensely proud" and wanting...
At Atlas Asia-Pacific, which distributes paint and automotive oil in Asia, management used a combination of work-force reduction and other strategies to save itself from diving markets overseas. Atlas, of Burlingame, Calif., suffered a catastrophic 65% drop in sales this year. The downturn led the company to lay...