Word: reductionism
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By allowing workers to air their grievances on the big screen, Moore demonstrates that America's rising economic tide has not raised all boats. He says that widespread downsizing among American businesses has resulted in a reduction of jobs in which people can earn a livable wage.
"There's a battle among Hashimoto's own people," says Baumohl. "Many of them are intent on further reducing the budget deficit -- tax reduction would knock them off that course." But in recessionary times, belt-tightening (as the U.S. learned under Herbert Hoover) can be disastrous. Instead of leading the...
The result of automation, he claims is both a reduction in expenses and a boost in the efficiency of scientists. "When you free up individuals to be creative and do the work that can't be done by machines, you free up a lot of potential," he says.
In the part of Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation that actually deals with Whitewater, the key witness is David Hale. Hale says that in 1986, when he headed a small lending operation, Bill Clinton pressured him to make an illegal loan to Susan McDougal, a partner of the Clintons in...
All I'm saying is let's not be too quick to form a negative judgment on this issue should the Giant Killer Asteroid menace reappear. (It's bound to, because, as I think about it, the astronomers probably changed their tune under pressure from the government, which feared mass...