Word: reductionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale College, however, has announced a reduction from 3.7 percent tuition growth to 2.9 percent, a 30-year low for Yale as well.
Today, by contrast, the campus left largely has not risen to the challege. Meanwhile, graduate programs in California and Texas scale back affirmative-action programs, the U.S. embarks on an uncharted course of welfare reduction in the name of "reform," and the middle class increasingly feels the squeeze from rising...
Other weight-control drugs are known to artificially stimulate appetite reduction, but scientists say they are unsure about the connection between GLP-1 and the brain.
Noting that most crime is committed by 15 to 25-year-old males, he said "it's natural to assume that when there's been a reduction in that age group, there's been a reduction in crime," he says.
That's not to say the U.S. got everything it wanted. Thanks to tough conditions demanded by both the Europeans and the developing world, key details of the emissions-trading proposal never did get worked out. The delegates also couldn't agree on what sanctions might be levied against countries...